The wonders of social media never seize to amaze even the most skeptical of us. In a recent example, a man was helped in delivering a baby into this world by an instructional video posted online, on famous video-sharing site YouTube. A UK engineer, from Redruth, Cornwall, brought his infant son into the world on his own, after learning how to do it from a simple video posted on YouTube. Though his wife spent quite some time in labor, an ambulance couldn't reach their location in time, so the people had to improvise and resolve the situation as best as they could.

Marc Stephens, the man in question, felt the need to watch some instructional videos on the matter when his wife, Jo, started feeling that it was time to give birth. The contractions were increasing in number with each minute, and the engineer simply sat down and started watching a few video clips on how to handle such situations.

“I Googled how to deliver a baby, watched a few videos and basically swotted up. The videos gave me peace of mind. I think I would have coped, but watching videos made things much easier,” the man told the BBC.

“I woke up and realized I was having contractions every five minutes. I woke Marc up and we phoned the midwife, but they were all so busy they couldn't come round to our house and told us to call an ambulance. But before it arrived, it all started,” Mrs. Stephens, who had planned a home birth all along, although not quite so sudden and abrupt, shared.

“This is our fourth child now and while for our first I spent most of the time at my wife's head, now I'm not afraid to go down to the business end. I was still on the phone to the midwife and told her that 'this is it,'” the man added, saying that he felt little to no emotions – other than the good kind, of course – and told that his training as a member of the Royal Navy helped him a lot in that regard.

According to the British media, after the birth was successfully completed, and the 5lbs 5oz Gabriel was safely born, the couple rushed down to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, in Treliske, only to have doctors give both the mother and the son a clean bill of health.