People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's in water. But certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

Boosler’s joke pivots on a then-newer childbirth trend—water birth—framed through a comic mismatch between intended benefit and social reality. The first sentence adopts the tone of a neutral report; the second repeats the soothing rationale (“less traumatic for the baby”) associated with natural-birth advocacy. The punchline abruptly shifts perspective to bystanders, exposing how a private, bodily event becomes grotesquely public when placed in a shared recreational setting. The humor comes from deflating earnest medical language with a blunt, communal image, and from highlighting how “trauma” depends on whose experience is being centered.