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Kali tells People.com that he considered stopping the recording “for a second,” and then just decided to go with it. “There’s a lot of negative stuff on Facebook and so I thought this would be positive,” he said. “I figured as long as I kept it PG—this is a birth—it’s something to be happy about.”
Luckily, Sarah is cool with the whole thing, although we’re pretty sure he didn’t get her consent while she was busy, oh, just pushing a baby out of her vagina.
Kali says he and Sarah laugh at people who have criticized them for being so public about what’s usually a private moment. “I know some people are mad that it’s not private, but I’m from the island [of Tonga], and years ago, we would have water births in public,” he says. “I wasn’t too worried about hiding anything because our culture has done this for thousands of years.”
The 45-minute video, which is still publicly available on Kali’s Facebook page, has been viewed more than 300,000 times.