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To think that Eastenders portrayal of MC is shite.

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sunburntats · 27/12/2009 13:08

Because it is!

Its not real BUT dear God, could they not have put a bit more effort into it??!!
Or at least research it!

Why do they on telly show someone having a quick sudden pain....then its all over with?

I dont mean show the ins and outs, but why the fuck is she strapped to a heart monitor?

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fairycake123 · 27/12/2009 13:12

Sounda almost as good as their portrayal of bipolar disorder. I can't watch it since that fucking Jean Slater character was introduced because it makes me so angry.

bellissima · 27/12/2009 13:44

Just how many weeks was she meant to be? Because my own experience suggests that, before about 20 weeks (I had bleeding at around 14-15) it's a case of 'sorry love go home and there's nothing we can do, come back if complications'.

(I have to say, in fairness, that when I had further trouble at around 30 weeks (low placenta apparently) it was instant admission and heart monitors etc.)

PurpleEglu · 27/12/2009 13:51

I did wonder why she was kept in hospital. Seemed very unrealistic.

Georgimama · 27/12/2009 13:55

But haven't you noticed that EE's portrayal of pregnancy full stop is utter shite? We were having this conversation last night actually. Perhaps the scriptwriters think their viewers have the attention span of a gnat, because the average pregancy on EE seems to be about six months, because for some strange reason no one realises they are pregnant one day after their period was due (as they do in real life) and no one is ever staggering around the Square at 41 + 6 pondering an induction. All EE babies are at least 4 weeks early, involving a crisis. The only home birth they ever had was Sonia Jackson, who allegedly didn't know she was pregnant.

Now I know some women go into sudden labour and give birth at home when they don't plan to, and some women have babies early, and some women don't realise thye are pregnant for 3 months +, but every single woman?

Vallhala · 27/12/2009 13:57

Ditto. I had a miscarriage under 12 weeks - pain, bleeding, and theat was it. Nothing that could be done, and as Bellissima said, a case of come back if you have any complications.

My partner was abroad at the time, things were difficult between us and I'd just been diagnosed with cancer. I didn't tell him until 3 years after it happened - if he was watching Eastenders when that scene was played and he was led to believe that Ronnie's experience was the norm, he would be justified in thinking that I made it all up.

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sunburntats · 27/12/2009 13:58

I KNOW!!!!

Crapola!
Why do they not get some advice about these things? Or if they do, why do they blatantly ignore that advice?

Its very very annoying and frustrating

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Toffeepopple · 27/12/2009 14:02

Haven't seen EE. But I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks, NHS Direct sent an ambulance and I was kept in for three nights. Didn't have a monitor though.

muggglewump · 27/12/2009 14:08

I had MC at 8 weeks. NHS Direct sent ambulance, kept in for 1 night, had scan 2 days later and d&c day after that after scan showed baby still there, but no heartbeat.

I didn't know I was pg either.

That was pg#2. Pg#3 I didn't know until 19 weeks. Perhaps I am a soap character?

Georgimama · 27/12/2009 14:15

Oh FFS. Obviously there are women to whom these things happen - women don't know they are pregnant, women haemorraghe when they MC, women go into sudden labour etc etc - no one is saying otherwise, we are just speculating on the likelhood of all these things happening to a dozen women who live on one tiny square in one borough of London.

muggglewump · 27/12/2009 14:19

Sorry, I was going to put a on the end but thought it was inappropriate in this thread.

You are right and their portrayal of pg and mc, and everything else really is ridiculous.

Sorry if I came across badly and upset anyone.

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sunburntats · 27/12/2009 14:21

not at all muggle!!I was thinking of your name and how to integrate it into EE! The "mugglewump family" moving in to the Vic as Archies long lost other family!

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Georgimama · 27/12/2009 14:26

Oops. Sorry for being huffy. You sound like you had a terrible time.

muggglewump · 27/12/2009 14:36

Ah sunburntats, with my weirdy mixed up family I'd fit right in on Albert Square and I'd do a fab 'gedaaaadamaaapub' albeit in a northern accent with my becoming more Glaswegian ned by the day daughter in tow

Tis ok Georgimama, was a while back and everything fine now

oldraver · 27/12/2009 15:09

I dont watch the programme but seems like all exagerrated storylines. The portrayel of anyone that has lost a baby usually goes on to involve the person then 'stealing' someone elses baby. .

norfolkBRONZEturkey · 27/12/2009 15:13

the prem line was appalling too
how many babies in nicu get a private room with unlimited visitors at any time

Themasterandsnowballs · 27/12/2009 15:44

I think you are all missing the point, it's NOT REAL. It's a soap opera, full of dodgy actors, story lines and crises.

If it was real, it'd be boring as hell and no bugger would watch it.

muggglewump · 27/12/2009 15:51

Yep, very true.
Funny how so many of the younger characters have Christmas birthdays too

jaquelinehydeThePresents · 27/12/2009 15:54

If you think that's bad, the spare a thought for how they portray fat people!

chegirlwithbellson · 27/12/2009 15:54

I know its not real (where in East London can people afford to live in townhouses around a gated square? )

BUT I do get fed up with soaps doing stuff stupidly.

Jamie died of liver failure didnt he? He was a lovely pink colour considering.

They usually manage to find some organ/bone marrow donor locally too. That is irresponsible IMO as it encourages complacency i.e. I dont need to go on the register, if something happens to me or mine we will get auntie mabel to give us a kidney.

Bereaved parents are usually nutters who nick babies or pretend other people's children are theirs (Doctors seem to be particularly fond of this storyline).

Women go into labour suddenly and in a weirdly full on manner. They all go OWWwwwwww and double over in pain, 20 mins later they have a huge, smooth, blinking baby.

People get cancer, have treatment, don a remarkable wig, get better and never have any horrible side affects or follow up - ever.

People loose children and act like loonies for a few episodes then apparently forget the child was ever there.

I could rant on for ages. But I wont because they are just soaps I suppose. It has some entertainment value, shouting at the tv that its all bollocks

lolianja · 27/12/2009 16:38

It can't just be me that wonders why Oscar Branning, born on Christmas Day 2007, still looks like a small baby of no more than about a year old, maximum (well he did last time I watched a few weeks back). My admittedly v. tall and thick-haired 10 month old looks considerably older.

I also find a lot of their portrayals of things infuriatingly crap! I appreciate that things need to be dramatised but I truly can't remember a single woman in the show ever going to term, let alone going overdue.

Sanitizing childbirth is one thing but the "I had cancer a year ago, vaguely hd some treatment that was rarely mentioned and caused no ill effects, and now life continues as though I was never ill/diagnosed in the first place" storylines far more insulting.

jaquelinehydeThePresents · 27/12/2009 17:26

And lets not forget why it is that most of the square can't afford a washing machine!

OrmIrian · 27/12/2009 17:27

Eastenders is shite. Full stop.

Baileysismyfriend · 27/12/2009 17:31

I was saying that to my DH last night.

It may happen like that sometimes but Ive had two and mine were far less dramatic.

Much more, 'have a lie down and test again in a fortnight'.

Glitterknickaz · 27/12/2009 17:37

Very odd.... I know after 15 weeks they induce you as I was induced at 22 weeks with a baby that died 2 weeks previous.
Baby was supposed to be Owen's though wasn't it so conceived end Nov at very latest. Seven, eight weeks?

claraquack · 27/12/2009 17:49

There are lots and lots of ridiculous storylines and the ones that will annoy you most are the ones which you know most about. Hence long ago when I had a life and worked as a journalist, the one about two journalists hanging around the square and not actually doing any work used to really irritate me. Now all the very well behaved, quiet toddlers really do my head in as I battle daily with dd2 born around the same time as Oscar Branning and about thirty times as noisy and time consuming as he is (where is he all day?).

I am sure there are lots of people out there who run pubs who think the way the Mitchells run the Queen Vic is ludicrous, and insurance salespeople who can't understand why Max spends most of his time in the pub or shagging.

I think you have to totally suspend disbelief when you watch it and just accept that they are unlikely to give realistic portrayals of anything unless they fit their storylines. Eg remember the storyline when Little Mo's baby had her up all night crying? They only had that so she could get to know the doctor. Otherwise her baby would have been a lovely quiet sleeper just like all the others!

Oh and don't get me started on Casualty where all you have to do is know someone who works there and you'll end up in Holby hospital one way or another.....