BBC3 - "Dawn gets a baby"

[lihaze]

Anyone watching this at the moment?
What an annoying woman presenting.

keep with it until the births...the girl comes good!

you must be jealous, lihaze!

teehee

lol lihaze.

Oh, yes, the Sally Jesse Raphael show definitely influences my attitude towards sex!

Is she pregnant in this programme? hard to tell, at this point she has a flattish stomach...

I don't think she is pregnant, no. But then you never can tell!

I watched this earlier in the week and quite enjoyed it, although Dawn Porter is maddening at times. Still, she asked the questions I was curious about, and if you look beyond her presenting style, the program is very interesting. I found the last birth really moving and wanted to bawl my eyes out...
Wish the Royal Cornwall Hospital had a birthing pool sigh

How easy did that last woman make it look???? All she did at the end was go "ow, ow, ow..."

ow????????? lol

She never mentioned that she was...

home birth? inflateable ones are fab...

omg Expat congratulations

It was actually quite good and she did get a little less annoying.

I had a good boo hoo at the end.... I am due later this week!

Best of luck, lihaze! Hope you get an "ow, ow, ow" birth, too!

Oh, I got an ow, ow birth.

And I was shrieking in pain.

Would like a water birth.

Just wonder if baby gets cold once it's born and you're still in the water.

I think I'd want to get right out afterwards because even though it hurt, I did like the way the jab of whatever it is they give you to help the placenta out make it sort of slide right out.

I sure as hell didn't fancy anymore pushing.

Damn, I forgot how raw and sore it all makes your poor fany afterwards before I went and got pregnant.

Ok, perhaps I'm a bit odd ... but those women made one hell of a noise! Does everyone do that? I was totally silent apart from shouting at my DH once when he tried to electrocute me with a TENS machine.

Oh lordy, I think perhaps I'm going to find I'm a bit strange ...

I made tons of noise with DD2.

I felt trapped by the pain and like it was going to kill me.

With DD1, I had an epidural. Was nice, but I did need forceps as she was face up with her hand cupping her head above the ear.

Oh God. Just me, then.

Tom Cruise would approve of me, I suppose!

I screamed and screamed and screamed. It took the edge off the pain.

no, me too. i needed my energy, wouldn't have wasted it on noise. i couldn't even speak.

I roared both times

In my defence both births were entirely pain relief free(not through choice mind you)

Hurray, I heart Aitch!

I didn't have any pain relief either, Pelvic (unless you count the TENS machine which I found to be more of a hindrance than a help - I think my silence was possibly due to shock more than anything else!

i remember the midwife imploring me to feel the baby's head and i was trying to speak to tell her just to get the baby OUT and stop mithering me.

Oh, yes, Don't you want to see it?

No, I want you to help me get it OUT!

I made no noise apart from telling the midwife to get it out now!

my midwife was absolutely lovely, though. but she just wouldn't take no for an answer. i was also being sick a lot because they had put morphine into my epidural (which DID NOT WORK) and i'm a bit allergic. so funny. i hadn't even had gas and air until the epidural went in because my BP shot up. i was being all brave and stoic... still at least the ep worked on the bp.

you know, i really did love my labour, it was an amazing experience. a bit nippy, right enough, but just amazing.

DH reminded me how I was calling for drugs after the G&A made me sick, only to be told again and again that it was too late for anything.

Thanks, love! Next time, I'm having your mother as a birth partner.

I've been a birthing partner twice (my own were CS's) and the two women were totally different, one was really vocal and swearing and cursing even thoguh she usually was quiet, the other was the one that was normally gobby and just kept begging me to stroke her.
It was really amazing to see how people cope in labour actually.