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One Born Every Minute- Wednesday!

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Flickstar · 30/12/2011 20:12

I've just found out that OBEM is back on Wednesday and thought I'd share! It is a new series with 14 episodes and is set in Leeds this time around. That should take away the back to work blues!

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Flickstar · 30/12/2011 20:16

Oh, and it's on at 9pm on C4- was too excited to include that above!

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RecursiveMoon · 30/12/2011 20:18

Ooh, how exciting Grin!

lynlynnicebutdim · 30/12/2011 20:20

sky+'d Grin

OddBoots · 30/12/2011 20:28

Ooh, thank you. :)

CarolCervix · 30/12/2011 20:30

Don't watch it if you want to see an accurae representation of what normal childbirth is like for the majority of women (if the past series was anything to go by grrrrr)

RecursiveMoon · 30/12/2011 20:30

I think OBEM bought Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust a big piece of equipment in return for being allowed to film there. At least, I think that's what the newsletter said a few months ago.

bethyrose · 30/12/2011 20:31

Awesome.........I hope there's Leeds version of Joy and Fabio!

StarlightMcKenzie · 30/12/2011 20:34

Yay, can't wait to spend a weekly session shouting at the TV.

Expecting again in June but currently no idea where I'm giving birth. Coukd be anywhere. Thanks to the stupid moving of the late May BH it means I'll be in a bloody tent 100 miles from home two days before my due date.

RecursiveMoon · 30/12/2011 20:34

That's interesting AYC, can you expand on that? I certainly saw elements of my childbirth experience when I've watched previously, and I imagine that everyone's experience is so different that it would be very difficult to capture a representative experience. The editing can seem a little skewed sometimes though.

CarolCervix · 30/12/2011 20:39

Excellent.

loads of women lying on beds shrieking and abandoned while 'midwives' sit around with their hysterical big teapot. then the great 'stoopid' menfolk who we can all criticise and laugh at, followed by a moment of activity. some more shrieking, usually some important and &necessary^ machinery followe dby a baby.

yes - a truly representative picture of birth and what women can do when properly supported.can't wait.

StarlightMcKenzie · 30/12/2011 20:44

Them 'PUSH'

Me 'SHUT THE FUCK UP'

Woman 'I CAN'T DO THIS'

Them Inc. Man 'He he '

Me 'grrrrrrr'

peggyblackett · 30/12/2011 20:47

Perfect viewing for 37w+5d :).

RecursiveMoon · 30/12/2011 20:51

Oh yes, there's usually an awful lot of lying on backs while the MN OBEM thread shouts 'Get up! What the bloody hell are you doing woman?!'.

Which raises the worrying question of whether this is a representative experience of women in the UK. It's hard - it's all very well going to NCT classes or whatever, but when you're in hospital and it's all actually happening, it can be quite easy to go with the flow and not question anything. I had a water birth which I loved, but spent a good couple of hours afterwards in stirrups (and I'm pretty sure with everything on display to anyone who came in the room) waiting before I eventually had surgery. A random man even came in looking for a chair during that time. At the time, I was probably a bit cross, but in hindsight, I'm really bloody cross.

RecursiveMoon · 30/12/2011 20:54

It's odd that the midwives / unit wouldn't put on a good show of current best practice (less lying on backs, more skin to skin contact etc).

CarolCervix · 30/12/2011 20:56

odd - or worrying that they think it is ok and normal?

they should rename it -

One born every minute - or how not to labour and birth.

StarlightMcKenzie · 30/12/2011 20:56

Because normal, smooth, quiet hands off births are pretty boring. You'd all get fed up watching my second birth. The most exciting bit was when I asked for sugar in my tea and my mum being surprised because I never take sugar.

puzzletree · 30/12/2011 20:56

I'm really looking forward to this! Live in Leeds and had DS1 at the Leeds General Infirmary so hoping to recognise some of the staff, and perhaps the families.

I think the previous series have been pretty representative of hospital births. Certainly I recognised my feelings and situation with DS1 in some of them, and those of my friends, and the births have been pretty varied, as have the women and men involved.

Kayzr · 30/12/2011 20:58

I love OBEM. Some of the things the dads say are highly amusing.

IfYouSeeKaySanta · 30/12/2011 20:58

Right, I've never ever seen OBEM....don't have any kids and couldn't bring myself to watch it

But....

Now I'm 15 weeks pg. Should I try to watch (from behind a cushion with the sound off) or reamin blissfully ignorant to what lies ahead?

StarlightMcKenzie · 30/12/2011 21:00

The best thing about it is the OBEM MN thread.

CarolCervix · 30/12/2011 21:00

Kayzr -that's what i find frustrating and incredibly sad, that normal people think it is good.

and IfYou - don't do it. or if you do, watch some good videos on youtube to balance it a bit.

StarlightMcKenzie · 30/12/2011 21:01

I reckon you should watch it so you know to write opposite things in your birth plan.

Flisspaps · 30/12/2011 21:01

CarolCervix There were a lot of women on their backs with directed pushing, which made me shout at the TV (with DH watching me like 'Hmm you've never done it yourself, you're not a MW, how can you expect to know that they should be standing up/squatting/moving around') however it does seem to give a far more accurate portrayal of what to expect than if you only watch US shows where the entire street comes in to watch, everyone has a drip and stirrups and the OBGYN wears what resembles a welding mask for the birth!

puzzletree · 30/12/2011 21:02

Hmm... I vote for watch it. Ignorance may be bliss but knowledge is power!

Kayzr · 30/12/2011 21:04

The American one was really bad. They all had epidurals pretty much as soon as they got to the hospital.

I enjoy it, dc3 is due in June and it'll remind me why I am having another homebirth. But I always enjoy it.