Did I read in the metro that Americans now have birthing galleries

[dillydally]

where you can invite a few friends round to watch you giving birth..
Apparently one lady had 7 family / friends in her gallery recently

I think I might refuse if I was lucky enough to receive such an invite but I would be willing to act as a birthing partner for a close friend.

It would feel quite strange having canapes whilst watching the placenta be expelled.

yes, Matthew Wright was on about it this morning.

Apparently they're thinking of doing it here!

That's just nasty.

hee hee expatinscotland, don't sit on the fence you wimp!!

Blech. And I AM American. What amuses me is that society is so puritannical there in a lot of ways - no watershed, you just can't swear on regular TV, Wal-Mart selling censored CDs, etc.

Yet you can invite all and sundry to watch you squeeze [insert naff forename here] out your yin-yang.

Do you get a round of applause at the end??

bleugh. how many people would want front row seats tho?

i watch some opf those birthing programmes on discovery, and you can tell the merican shows just by the amount of people in the delivery room all pushign on the lady giving birth legs. lol.

Yeah, and she's flat on her back and they're telling her to be quiet.

Yeah, I fit in there like a square peg . . .

just get up and the baby will fall out, tsk!

Popcorn and cokes all round too?

No home made placenta pate on a rice cake tiny

Definitely NOT alcoholic bevies, TinyGang. There's a little Satan in every container of those toxic bevies, yes indeed.

Including Jesus juice?

Lol! Not even alcohol for the Mum??(gasp!)

Actually it would be horrible. When you've had a baby everyone likes to tell you not to do it like that - do it like this...blah, blah. Imagine the 'audience' shouting advice whilst you're in labour too. Arrgh!! OFF the lotta ya!!

Can't imagine any hospital there allowing a patient to drink alcohol w/o threat of arrest.

can;t think of anything better than all my friends and family getting an eyeful of my minge in it's worst possible state!

Why has nobody thought of that before now?

What if you needed ventouse or forceps? Yeah, I'd really want someone other than my DH or mum to watch me go through that.

Not even my mum - she'd be second guessing the doctor all the time with 'I would have thought...' and 'Don't you think it would be better if...' Arrgh!

am sure all mil's would be a good source of useful advice during the second stage of labour

In fact, why not have someone there with a camcorder and then you could sell it on eBay afterwards.

This is brilliant!