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One Born Every Minute - will you be watching?

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MarathonMama · 03/01/2012 14:21

I know it's slightly sad strange to admit but I love One Born Every Minute and can't wait for the new series to start tomorrow.

I'll be watching even though I'm 30 weeks pregnant and it's bound to put the fear of god into me, will you?

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4madboys · 04/01/2012 23:52

yes i wanted to be mobile with all my births and NAKED, i actually got out of the bath (which was in a seperate room to my delivery room) and marched down the corridor back to my delivery room stark naked, dragging the gas and air canister with me Blush the midwife was frantically trying to throw a sheet over me, i didnt give a shit! i suspect it was more to save the embarrassment of other fathers etc that may have been about!

perfumedlife · 05/01/2012 00:39

Gosh it's amazing seeing it up close, you miss seeing your own delivery thank goodness probably

I had birth pool but went on for almost a day so epidural and forceps. I can see now that it slowed things down and baby's heartbeat dipped, all very scary at the time. He cried right away thank goodness. That big baby took the longest time, three minutes must have felt like eternity to his mum.

PoultryInMotion · 05/01/2012 08:22

Shagmundfreud I think the second woman was planning on breastfeeding, didn't she stick a breast pad on her bf's face?

4madboys · 05/01/2012 08:26

yes she did poultry you are right! they seemed a lovely couple actually and it was very sad he was going away to afghanistan, i said in the credits at the end that he was currently on a 6mth tour? i hope he comes home safely :)

CheerfulYank · 05/01/2012 08:45

Oh Fishpond. :(

I am American and my doctor was lovely. I did have an epidural but as you said, there was no other option. I was not told when to push, my doctor told me to listen to my body. There wasn't a big birthing pool but there WAS a largish tub to sit in whenever I chose, and birthing balls, etc.

Also I had no money and the state paid for most of the birth, and what they didn't the Catholic hospital covered.

It sounds like I was extraordinarily lucky. :(

On the upside I do hear of more and more people who are choosing homebirth and midwives. I really do think it's on the upswing. Of course I do know a lot of hippies. :o

pommedenoel · 05/01/2012 09:01

Working - another one here bogging up forceps when used well by a good doctor. I fear neither I nor dd would be here if not for two skilful doctors a generation apart!

RidingInTheMidnightBlue · 05/01/2012 09:16

My midwife told me the bed wasn't an option (not that i wanted it) and was the biggest advocate of moving around naked and trying different positions. She also encouraged biological nurturing (dd not interested for 24hrs though). She was fab and would pay her to help deliver any future dc. Nhs, 2011,lri.

CailinDana · 05/01/2012 09:38

I had to laugh at the birthing outfit too, mainly because at one point, while circling Mars on gas and air, I just stripped off all my clothes while DH sat there looking both amused and horrified Grin There wasn't even a bed in my delivery room and that was on a labour ward, not an MLU. They did bring a bed in in the end and I was bullied into getting onto it by the older horrible midwife, but at that stage I was so tired I think I needed it. I'm always amazed how different the births I see on OBEM are from my birth- I was either storming about the place or on my knees for most of it, I made some ungodly sounds and I was clearly twisted on gas and air. The ones on OBEM seem so civilised by comparison!

Happenstance · 05/01/2012 10:38

I Can't wait for next week, the birth outfit looked great only got 12 week left so best get a move on with mine :), love her bloke too and his it will be wonderful like a disney movie, Grin yes of course it will

cheekycurls · 05/01/2012 10:49

watched it, loved it, wish it was me! Grin

myweeangel · 05/01/2012 10:56

10lbs 10oz.... my girl was 10lb 5oz! Worried about no 2 on the way, planning to take all drugs going...

nailak · 05/01/2012 11:01

did everyone else miss the greggs sausage rolls?

pommedenoel · 05/01/2012 11:21

When you are induced you are monitored and have to be on your back ffs!!! Some people (like me) have to be induced so less of the snotty 'Active Labour' comments please...

I think that taking your mum rather than the father into theatre is wrong myself. If she is old and ugly enough to make a baby with that man/boy then they should birth it together. Obviously doesn't excuse his actions but waiting like that must be pants.

norriscoleforpm · 05/01/2012 11:23

dd1 was 4lbs 3 and on the special ward for two weeks with a lot of other small but generally ok babies, as it were. One morning I woke up and went to see her (this was in the day when you actually stayed in hospital for as long as your baby - three weeks in my case) and there was a - I kid you not - 12lb baby next to her Shock. He had broken his mothers pelvis coming out and his own shoulder. It was incredible.

4madboys · 05/01/2012 11:26

pommedenoes i was induced for all 5 of mine and unless you have the syntocin drip or the baby is showing signs of distress you DONT have to have the moniter on all the time, you can just do intermitent monitering as usual!

even then you dont have to be on your back i had the syntocin drip for dd so needed the moniter on all the time, i still sat on a birth ball, knelt up, went on all fours etc they just had to adjust the moniter as i moved, so you can still have an active labour iwth the moniter on, more so now as some hospitals have wireless moniters :)

working9while5 · 05/01/2012 11:38

Pommedenoes, I was induced with a syntocin drip and and although eventually I needed forceps as ds was malpositioned, I did most of my pushing in an upright position kneeling on the bed with my arms on the back of the bed for support. And that was with an epidural!

carocaro · 05/01/2012 11:51

I do love it however I do wish they would show some quick births, so those who are about to give birth don't presume it's going to be this lengthy, drawn out process. Mine were 4 hours and 6 hours. So I think they need to show a balance and that they are not all 24 hours plus. Both babies did not cry for a while when born, THE worst moments of my life and then the BEST when the start to cry. I only had a handfull of pushes with each baby and I do so feel for those who are at it for a long time.

buonasera · 05/01/2012 11:52

Wow, it's not like that in my hospital... so quiet! So many staff, so few patients!

Felt sorry for the wee guy who went mental when he realised he wouldn't see the baby born... on the other hand he hardly made himself look like the ideal birth partner with the crying and stamping of feet... the fact that both the fathers were 20 can't have been a coincidence. The army guy came across a lot better - cue massive rant from my OH (who comes from a country where they still do national service) about what this country needs for its young guys to grow up!

Cailin, I was wondering about the gas and air! They both seemed a bit stoned after they started taking it. Is it quite strong that way? I really don't fancy getting vague and uninhibited at that point - am dreading if it's a VB as I don't even like people seeing me in pain, never mind as high as a kite and half naked! I've had two MCs in the house without pain medication and in the second one just sent my other half up to bed so I could pace the floor and curse under my breath. Not sure I'm going to be allowed that much privacy in a delivery suite unfortunately.

NanaNina · 05/01/2012 12:27

I was a bit disappointed it wasn't the same hospital and I didn't find it that interesting. Maybe they can't find enough people willing to be filmed (suprising that!) I was thinking about the girl with the prat of a bloke and was glad she had a good sensible mother. I just kept saying to myself "hopefully she will be rid of the pratt in less than a year and will be living with her mum"

shouldnotbehere · 05/01/2012 12:30

pommedenoel - I thought she made the right decision, having her mum with her. Much calmer than her hothead boyfriend. It would have been awful on the doctor, having him ranting in the background, when the baby was not breathing.

fishandlilacs · 05/01/2012 12:33

Wanted to watch it but couldn't not because i'm 39 weeks pregnant but because of that stupid chavvy boy going on about being hungry. I gather he lost his rag later. Yeah he's soo ready to be a parent. TWUNT.

justwantcheese · 05/01/2012 12:52

i thought he was a selfish twat,it was all about me me me, stop kicking walls and being such a dick and grow up1

BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 05/01/2012 17:10

Just watched it now.

Had a quick read back through and noone seems to have noticed that both the woman in for induction, and the woman for monitoring (waters broke but no contractions when she got in) were in delivery rooms?

Is it just my hospital then where they would have both been on a ward until labour was actually established? (was in at 28w with DS on the ward, woman next to me was being induced, it took a few days to get her going, two different women opposite me came in as their waters had broken but labour hadnt started)

4madboys · 05/01/2012 17:18

i think it depends on why you are being induced beyondthelimits the first girl with a idiot boyfriend, he waters had already broken the day previous? so they were inducing her to avoid risk of infection? and so she needed the drip etc, you would go straight to delivery for that.

and the other lady again they were breaking her waters, they would only do that on the devliery floor as well.

i have been induced with each of mine and am allergic tot he prostin gel, so have to just get my waters broken so i started off on delivery floor straight away as well, no point going to a ward as there is nothing they can do there :)

pommedenoel · 05/01/2012 17:48

Oh okay. I also had special boots on to prevent clots which work off the bed. guess that's why I couldn't move then not induction. However, some of us as much as we would like it can't have an active labour as much as we would like one!

I assumed they were all in delivery rooms due to cameras - I was on the ward for a lot of mu induction. Poor couple who had to see me as the drugs kicked in violently and I vomited everywhere for four hours! It turned out they lived just up the road bizarrely.