“Crowd Birthing?” Not In This Lifetime!

Could you even imagine?

Could the Kardashian influence have finally infiltrated even the hospital delivery room of an expectant mother?

Fans of the show will remember Kourtney Kardashian's documented-for-TV delivery of her daughter, Penelope. There were eight family members in the room (not to mention the thousands of people who later watched at home), including son Mason, sisters Kim and Khloe, brother Rob, half siblings Kendall and Kylie, mom Kris Jenner and Scott Disick, the baby's father.

“Crowd birthing” — or inviting throngs of people into the delivery room and/or documenting the experience on social media — might be the latest trend among pregnant women. One U.K. parenting site, Channel Mum, said the average number of friends and family present for a birth is eight. In other words, the same number of people as Kourtney Kardashian.

“The term is one I'm just starting to hear, but the practice of having a lot of people in the delivery room has been getting popular for some time,” Babble blogger and birth doula Bailey Gaddis told ABC News. The Ojai, California mom had five family and friends in the room for the birth of her son, her husband, her mother, her mother-in-law, her brother-in-law and a friend. She recently attended at the birth of a woman with seven friends and family in the room.

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