to be a bit [hmm] about One Born Every Minute blurring out women's genitals?

[AtYourCervix]

lets face it, they are pushing out babies FFs. We all know where babies come from. So why is it necessary to blur out the pubic region? is it too offensive or something?

apart from every women filmed lying on her sodding back of course but that's a whole other thread

Must be quite a few people here never seen Embarrassing bodies. All shapes and sizes of willies and flaps on there.

There have been some shots there where you do see the baby being born though hasn't there. I can't remember which birth, but there was one where you actually saw the baby's head coming out. Amazing. So there have been some shots hasn't there?

I assumed it was down to mums consent.

thank god it is, dont want to see a fandango in a rage..

I'm ok with the blurring. I was glad that my head was up the other end and far away when my vagina was burping up my babies. I could feel what was happening, I didn't need to see it

i wanted to lie down with my 3rd to stop him flying out too fast...somehow i found myself on my knees all the way through just like the previous 2, coming so fast there was no mw in sight

there was one last week wasn't there, you could see the head coming out but strangely blurred around the edges!

Would be a lot more informative if the showed the tears and stitching.....

Highlander - it would certainly be educational to show third stage and then the length of time stitching and patching can take. I think a lot of people think that the birth is over once the baby arrives - but you can be laying there with your fanjo in the air for another hour (while random people ferret about and compare embroidery techniques).

I would normally agree but gadget-mad DH bought us a 50" HD telly. So their vulva would be BIG AND WIDE AND IN GREAT CLARITY if they didn't blur it.

I don't want to see mine or anyone's lady parts being stretched out of all recognition. It's like a man watching another man being kicked in the balls. It makes me feel most peculiar. I'd blur the bastard out of existence if I were able.

I saw somewhere that the penis on tv isn't allowed to be any more erect than the angle of Italy.

I saw a film and it had 3 couples getting married, one couple were nudist (starred Robert Webb and Olivia Coleman and from what I remember of it, they were both naked throughout the whole film and you did see alot of frontal shots.

As for OBEM - I wouldn't want my foofoo on show either. So maybe it is the mothers choice.

But why would you want to see more? [squeamish].

Rhubarb - the shot where they showed the baby's head emerging made me gasp. It was amazing to see how incredible it all is. I have never been a birth partner and obviously didn't see either of my two DSs being born from that angle. But amazing footage and breathtaking just to see the wonder of birth. I always love the bit at the end where they actually show the birth itself and then start weeping with how amazing it all is.

maybe so they can sell the program to the us for example? they would have to add so much more beeping though.

I am glad they blur it- I don't think showing it would add anything to the programme.

Pmsl Pinot

And Bupcakes, I've seen your thread. It's vagine, not clopper

My MW took photos during labour including close ups of my stretching Fanjo (I didnt know at the time as out of it). Fuck me, that was a surprise flicking through the pics days later

I would think it is to do with getting people to agree to it, I mean I wouldnt agree to it anyway but im sure i would be marginally more likely to if i was blurred rather than in glorious detail.
As for the being on a bed everytime I have had a baby they pretty much strapped to the bed on the monitors the whole time anyway no one has ever even mentioned standing, kneeling, birth balls etc etc.

My midwife helped haul me up onto the bed for stitches AFTER I'd given birth. We had bean bags, handheld heart monitors, the lot! I didn't realise that was so unusual. I can't even imagine how you would push a baby out lying down.