One Born Every Minute

[NanaNina]

Love the programme but can't stand that midwife saying at the beginning "Ooh I'll ave one of those teacakes I like those teacakes! Probably just me!

Tis a great show I love it, but it scares me silly and I vow not to watch it week after week.
Then I forget and watch it
Air raid woman is annoying yes.

It's a great programme, but the times when they all sit in the staff room necking tea and cake will be few and far between I can tell you.

They are not even tea cakes they are bakewell tarts

I liked "Do you want a cup of tea?" from the series in Southampton. I still miss it now at the end of the opening music

Whenever I see that large Emma Bridgewater mug, I always feel it's a nod of recognition to mumsnet. there were a lot of threads about mugs when I joined!

How interesting that what some people like, others can't stand. I didn't know the teacakes were bakewell tarts. Didn't that teacake midwife say she at 6 bakewell tarts one day or night. In fact in the other series (which I liked better) there was a plate of prettily iced cupcakes, but I liked the senior midwife who drained her cup and said "lovely" and hurried off - she was lovely I thought and so caring. I can't understand why so many women scream on OBEM.

It is over 40 years ago that I had my children and husbands were not allowed anywhere near you (nor anyone else for that matter) and there was none of this walking about and water births. You had an enema and your pubic hair shaved off (god knows why) plonked in a bed in a long ward and left there till they wheeled you into the labour ward, and there was no holding your baby (or even looking at him) because he was immediately whisked away and brought to you a few hours later. Mind they did keep all the babies in the nursery at night, so you got a good sleep - you could hear babies crying but since you didn't know if it was yours or not you drifted back off to sleep.

I certainly didn't scream and never heard anyone else scream. Were we tougher in those days - no gas and air, no epidurals, but when I had my third child I was given pethadine which didn't do much for the pain. Sorry I didn't mean this to turn into a "birth story"

My mum says exactly the same thing every week!!! "you lot don't know you're born" I get what she means as well.

Hate hate hate the woman's face with the big mug.

Oh and I screamed because it fucking hurt.

I like the don't panic, never panic woman

The fun just never stops!
Grrrr

I can't abide the "one more push and you're gonna be a Mummy" woman with the questionable fringe. Not so much for that ^^ snippet, more for how patronising and irritating she was when she was featured during a birth. She massively narked the woman giving birth too.

Lol how funny! I just dislike the length of it so mute until the programme starts!

Oh never thought of that VickityBoo! As those bloody meerkats say "simple" (sorry not really going on to the ads I hate most, but might start another thread on that.

Been thinking about screaming, and I suspect it depends what sort of woman you are - maybe more expressive extrovert women scream, while the reserved introvert type of woman doesn't.

Oh god yes vivipru what the hell is going on with that bloody fringe? Does she not own a mirror?

Oh I like the fringy woman and when she says "one more push and you'll be a mummy" but best of all I like the nanny at the bottom of the bed who says "I think it's all happening" and the look of sheer joy on her face.

I don't like big cup lady. She's all 'look at me with my big cup, I'm totally I crazy I am'. I much preferred the last series. There seems to be lots of hamming it up in this one.

Yes I much preferred the last series BB and I can't stand the "big cup" lady either, but it doesn't stop me looking forward to it and being engrossed in it the whole time.