Is there a thread about Eastenders having a prem baby and not mentioning BFing?

[Neenztwinz]

This has got me really mad, although I have missed an episode so perhaps they have mentioned it, but Roxy has had a baby at 33 weeks, she is in SCBU but there has been no mention of BFing. No mention of how important breast milk would be for the baby.

Is there a thread already about this?

TinkerbellesMum, in the hospital I had ds3 in which is the National Maternity Hospital in Ireland so you would think they had it sussed, there was one tiny room for expressing, hardly bigger than a cupboard. You could only fit one Mum in at a time and there was always a queue. I remember not expressing for ds3 once and having to wait till I got home because there was a Mum there with a more premature baby than mine and I thought her need was greater!
Would have loved the set-up you described!

i don't think i was waddling after i had ds. iirc it only hurt when i had a wee. the labour scene was stupid though. you don't have a chat like that inbetween contractions! it would be good if they actually showed roxy expressing or even just a bottle of milk that she had just expressed. can people just walk in and out of scbu like they seem to on eastenders? the baby looks so unrealistic aswell. i'm sure it hasn't even got a real face.

also when bradley went into see max yday i noticed he didnt use that gel on his hands tut tut tut.

It wasn't a huge room, had 4 or 5 pumps/ sterilisers down one side, a sink on one end then space to sit and BF opposite the pumps, plus they kept the screens and cushions in there, but considering the size of the Unit it was enough. The hospital are fantastic on breastfeeding though. I always feel sad when I hear of what happens in other Units when people aren't getting so good a deal.

NA at BWH which I assume is the same all over parents have 24/7 access (with some restrictions on handover and quiet time) and everyone else is restricted, two non-parent visitors at a time and there are visiting hours.

Ilana ther are other babies in there with amy there were some other parents in there the other day.

Was gona say cos Ronnie, Archie, Peggy and Christian all seem to be going in and out as they please.

Ilanak, I have pictures that look like Tink was the only baby in the room because of the angle. Why shouldn't Roxy have her own room? They often do for NNU mums so that they're not around pregnant mothers or have to listen to newborns all the time. When I was in the rearranged the whole ward to keep antenatal/ postnatal/ neonatal in separate places.

NA, no it wouldn't be allowed. I used to have people calling for me on the ward so I could take them down to see Tink.

I need to watch the omnibus again as I missed some of it but I'm rather annoyed by the things I've seen.

Why does the baby have an umbilical line? They're put into the very early babies whose veins are too small as the umbilical vessels are bigger.

That baby is huge and it was "just" labour so why do we have all this "the baby might die" stuff?

And that brings me on to the doom from the nurse! Yeah, scare the parents to death why not!

BTW, neither of them are in private rooms, it's just quiet!

Agree. It's all a load of pants. What I want to know is why Oscar is not permanently on Tanya's hip or crawling about round her feet. Mine is.

Baby? What baby?

Re: drinking in Eastenders, I'm no prude, but I am often horrified by the amount of alcohol that's perceived to be drunk in any given show. Tanya's never without a glass in her hand, any time any of them have a shit moment (which is all the time) they are downing neat vodka, I mean, bloody hell Britain has a bad enough problem with this without it being seen to be normal to drink as much as that lot. No wonder they're all so miserable, they must be permanently hungover.

Sorry. I went off down tangent boulevard there.

Ah well, Eastenders! I remember the infamous episodes years ago where Pauline went to Ireland to meet her sister who had been adopted. Who was married to a drunk ( no stereoptye there then!) and seemed to think tumble dryers were "newfangled things" that only existed outside of Ireland.

I was quite pleased with the mention of breastfeeding pretty much the first time that Roxy saw Amy.
I really hope she breastfeeds when she gets home.
With the whole 'baby might die' stuff they said the same to me about DD. Born at 32 weeks so it's not really that far-fetched.

lol chipmonkey
was that post sent via wireless carrier pigeon?

Really VS we were never told anything like that, they were positive without false hope "We can't tell you what will happen" "She's OK, we just need to fatten her up" "We've only put her on a ventilator to teach her to breathe properly because she is breathing too fast on her own" (Recently found out how serious RDS really is!) "We can't say how long she will be here but they're normally let out around 36- term" (how smug was I at 35 weeks when she was let out? OK, only to transition but if she was bottle fed it would have been home).

We were "just" labour (I can't remember why yours came early ) so I don't know if it makes a difference. But I don't remember anyone else every being spoken to negatively unless they were commenting on the situation, not as a general possibility.

I think I'm going to watch it properly on iPlayer with pen and paper so I can write down all the parts!

It was prem labour because of placental abruption, which they managed to stop but then did a CS so not actually anything that affected DD (though would have if she had stayed in iyswim).
I was told constantly that they couldn't say if she'd be ok and not to expect too much as she was very poorly etc.

Sounds like a really scary time.

It shocked me seeing everyone being so negative because we never had that experience and there were some really early babies in with Tink. One little girl (27 weeker I think) they moved to the nursery and we all knew it was because they wanted to close down one of the HDU rooms because of the numbers. She ended up back in the IC room very quickly because of it, but they were always positive.