Homebirth 999 transcript in Guardian Family today

[WendyWeber]

Article here

I like Leo Hickman, and I loved this piece, (had to stifle a sob a couple of times!) but I'm amazed that despite having the transcript he still doesn't know the name of the woman who talked him through it!

opening one of ds's games incorrectly...

Floods of tears here, but hey- booked a home birth alst week so allowed to be emotional!

The pics of me after giving birth are bizarrely the only ones I like the look of myself in- strange that! Clearly pain and strain suit me (explains a lot.... )

LTH_ calm down love!! - my turn now...

booked a HB, peachy??!!

errrr WHY/how did I not know you are PG??

congratulations, sound very belated though if you're booking HB's already.

I wondered if you missed that LOL, everyone else knew....

12 weeks tomorrow

12 weeks??

and i didn't know?!!!?

hhhmmphhh

I haven't exactly been hiding it LOL- annpunmced it on a thread that was mentioned in Despatches LOL even

and there was I thinking I'm addicted to MN and know all the goss.

obviously not!!

Marvellous work. The operators do a hard job in sometimes difficult situations.
Wonderful

me broody nah.......

Makes you realise just how good our 999 service is, they get very little praise

What a fantastic bloke and operator (of course the woman giving birth gets applause too).

LTH, didn't even know that Pixie was pg, let alone Peachy, it's outrageous isn't it.

Well as I never enter the ante natal threads anymore, in fact I didn't with DD sadly, that's why we didn't know.

OK, my youngest is now 7 months, and I now want another one....

A few questions:

Since when did a woman giving birth to a baby constitute news?

Since when has a woman giving birth to a baby at home been something remarkable?

Since when has a woman giving birth to a baby without the assistance of suitably qualified medical practitioners been unusual? Aren't millions of babies born under such circumstances around the world every day?

In short, this is not by anyone's definition - even a Gadurian journalist's - news.

The only thing worthy of note about the whole story was the efficiency with which the girl on the ambulance HQ switchboard acquitted herself.

Frankly, I'm at a loss as to why this story would reduce anyone but the terminally moronic to tears.

The only tears I was reduced to were tears of total boredom as Victoria Derbyshire devoted most of her Radio 5 live programme to it yesterday morning. Folk were still blathering on about it when I thought it was sure to be safe to switch on again about an hour after being forced to switch off.

She even invited people to "listen again" to the whole delivery on the 5 Live website - who on earth would want to do that?

Oh, you are a charmer, krazykoolkazza.

family section is not the news section fyi

Oh forgive me Mousie but I thought "The Guardian" was a news paper and that Radio 5 Live was a radio channel that broadcast news and sport and that this topic section was headed "in the news".

Are you just mad at the Guardian because it quoted you and sent this place into a week-long meltdown, krazykoolkazza?

It is very inconvenient that your abbreviation is kkk, btw.

Absolutely fantastic!

PW, I'm so glad you said that

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shock horror at mums taking pleasure in reading about another mother's unusual and interesting birth experience

ye gods , surely only the terminally unempathetic would not want to read and enjoy something so uplifing

krazykoolkazza, (crazy with a 'k' to denote how crazy you are, i presume) GET A LIFE YOU MISERABLE FART!!!!! for gods sake! it isn't newsworthy?? Maybe it is in the fact that it is a pleasant change to the dire news we listen to on a daily basis, and yes, it is uplifting to know that the most precious arrival that you will have that should alll being well be delivered in teh most specialised care is delivered by an unqualifed person at home!!! Go and read the telegraph in latin if mumsnet isn't serious or newsworthy enough for you!