To be crying watching One born every minute

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I'm such a softy... But I think once you experience a birth yourself you just can't help it. I'm so happy that baby Laragh an her mum are ok.

ds was given a tiny dummy in nicu, I was nice for him to have something to suck on. I am not a young girl and I still bf him for 15 months so nobody judged me .

Yanbu. I always cry when I see a birth on tv.

And about the dummy. My DS was in special care for a week and they gve him a dummy on day 1 as he was distressed and couldn't be cuddled 24/7. Like someone said,it's not child abuse FFS.

I was a complete mess watching that.

NOT going to mention the d word. Nope, not.

Scary show tonight, awful to watch, tears everywhere. I was a bit about the dummy too, til I remembered that both dd1 and dd2 had a dummy on day one, and I'm currently trying to get two week old ds to take one. Judgy pants severely unknotted there! I hate dummies really, but they are a total godsend for a sucky baby!

I can't stop hugging my dd this morning (well I'm like that anyway but today especially) and feel really grateful that I had the birth I had. You can't take it for granted, one minute the birth is going well and the next there's an emergency and a matter of life and death.
I'm with on mog the dummy thing - that young woman will get enough judgement over her age and the father of the baby and a dummy, while I would't do it myself, isn't such a big deal.

I always cry watching that show lol

I didn't watch the programme, but when she was born DD2 got an infection and spent 9 days in SCBU. I was four floors up with an infection of my own so couldn't see her as much as I liked and she was too weak to BF. They suggested a dummy and I wasn't keen on them before, but thought whatever comforted her was worth a try.

She wasn't remotely interested in it as it turns out, and is a devout thumb-sucker, but after three spinal taps and being so ill I couldn't have cared less if it had worked as long as it comforted her.

It was scary , and sod off with your dummy judging .

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Don't normally watch it as hate the editing they do. I am a midwife & yes we have some scary stuff to deal with. Still can't believe they showed that birth on tv! That baby is extremely lucky to be alive, but who knows long term? She was still in Special care so wasn't all well. If I was the mum I defo wouldn't have let my baby suffering (having her arm broken possibly & nearly starving of oxygen) been shown on national tv for entertainment.

YANBU. I cry buckets when I see a birth on tv, let alone a traumatic one. It just brings all those feelings flooding back.

Dummies definitely have their place. I didn't use one as I never could get DS1 to take it and didn't bother with DS2, but my SIL did and it really helped her. Some people like them, some don't. Some babies need them, some don't. Just one of those things really.

I can't stop thinking about it, to be honest I still feel quite teary at the thought of Dawn's birth and like many others it's a bit too close to home.
My 2 best friends both had horrific births, 1 very similar to last night's show and the other had a prolapsed umbilical, got rushed to hospital and had a GA. Both are very lucky and have beautiful healthy children thanks to the fantastic NHS Midwives and doctors. As horrific as it was I do think it's important to show that things don't always go to plan, but the hospital teams work so hard to make sure there is a happy outcome.

I was in my late 20s in a professional job when DS2 was born and he had a dummy from 4 hours old, and I even BF him for a year Save your judgy pants for when it might be useful. FFS the mother was young and gave her baby a dummy so you judged. Get a life.

What a programme that was! Watched in tears. I think I held my breath until that baby cried goodness knows what they were going through!!

As for Giorgi what a fab birth that was. Wonderful family support (couldn't envisage my own mother being as supportive with me) Big deal so her baby has a dummy, she looked perfectly happy and contented to me.

Any one still wondering about why the take up of home births is so small. I think because what happened last night is difficult to forsee and it isn't worth risking one baby's life for a 100 who will have a successful outcome.

I think what made it even more terrifing was that the staff all looked really scared. You know it's serious then.

My DD would have had a dummy at one day old if the little sod angel hadn't kept spitting it out, she howled every time I put her in the cot and woke the other three babies in the room, in the end the midwives had to take her for a while as they were worried about me falling asleep while holding her and her falling out of the bed, I don't see the issue with newborns having dummies, I have heard that they help prevent SIDS too and that was another reason I wanted to use one.