To cry at EVERY birth on OBEM?!

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I can't be the only one surely?

I have watched it for years and years and years and I still cry at every single birth in every episode

My sister watches it too (she never cries) and thinks it's extremely odd that I get so emotional

I refuse to believe I'm the only one

I definitely tear up or well up emotionally because every birth is a miracle.

Oh god no, I have to drink pints of water whilst watching or I end up dehydrated. Except at the screamers, I just shout at them on the screen because my Midwife Aunty always said to me if you've got enough energy to scream you're not putting all your energy into pushing. I never cry at anything in life; broke my leg in a skiing accident, had my dog PTS, no tears, one episode of OBEM and the floodgates were opened.

It's something to do with the beauty of new life; there is no bigger gift, and seeing the pain, the worry, the upset of the parents and then that stunning moment when the baby arrives, it's like a tiny celebration in the middle of something so arduous. I cry whenever I meet friend/family newborns, too. It's something incredible, watching a new life begin.

Oh yes, buckets.

I never cry at this programme. Have never cried at a wedding either.

Yep every time! At DGDs birth I was a complete soggy mess - watching a new life begin is absolutely magical.

And weddings too, I reckon I could go to the wedding of complete strangers and end up in tears

Isn't this series over now? if not I have some to catch up on.

I cry too.

Yes, I cry too. I can't watch it if anyone else is home because they get all eye-rolly at me. I have to Sky+ it and watch the next day.

I just fast forward to the births and then cry..

I didn't even cry at the birth of my own children, let alone other people's. Have never cried at weddings either dead inside

Another crier here. And I cry at John Lewis Christmas adverts. And the other day I was a howling mess watching that 'Inside number 9 12 days of Christine'. Oh that was messy. DH just looked at me like I was a crazy person.

Don't even get me started on Toy Story and The Princess and the Frog. HOOOWWWWL.

Every time.

I can be watching the whole lead up not arsed. As soon as they start to push, I'm in floods.

Weird x

I am NOT usually one for crying but this gets me everytime. Convinced it's the stirring emotive music they use.

Every single time!
Had to stop watching it in the end, the emotional toll was too high!

Yep, I cry too. That's why I don't watch it.

Farewellfigure, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to have cried at The 12 Days of Christine. I sobbed for an hour and even DH cried too. It was the saddest thing ever.

Even when I think I haven't made a "connection" with the woman giving birth and therefore won't be emotional when the baby arrives, when it actually happens the tears just start streaming!

Oh yes. When I was a student nurse watching IRL I was a clubbing, snivelling mess in the corner.

Blubbing, not clubbing!

But then, I also once cried at The Boss Is Coming To Dinner, so I'm not sure I'm the control element of this test.

I didn't even cry when my son was born, I just looked at him and thought WTF? But I was high on pethadine and he was my first.

But I cry at every OBEM birth now, every single one.

Oh yes I do too. And not just OBEM, and programme with a birth in it.

Sometimes I think to myself "I can't bear this woman. She's so bloody annoying. I'm not gonna cry when she has her baby . . . wait . . . what's that? Oh the baby !!! Oh! Oh . . . . Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

I always cry when I see childbirth on tv/video. More so since having children, I think. I'm not sure if it happened before?

I cry at the births but not for the women who scream their heads off in an exaggerated way. Oddly though I didn't shed a tear when my own DS was born.

It's the bloody music, it's designed to set you off.

Hells teeth, I hope you lot don't watch Long Lost Families, or it'll be like the Somerset Levels in your houses!

Every. Single. One. DH leaves the room when he sees it come on as he's a squeamish wimp he laughs too hard at the state I get into over complete strangers' births!