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NOW CLOSED Add your views on last night's episode of "One Born Every Minute" (17 Jan, Ch 4, 9pm) and you could win a £50 Amazon voucher

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AnnMumsnet · 17/01/2011 14:30

Channel 4 have asked Mumsnet to find out what you think about their new series of One Born Every Minute. The second episode is tonight - Channel 4 at 9pm - it is a 12 part series.

We've recruited a special panel of volunteer viewers to add their comments to this thread. Channel 4 don't have specific questions for you - they are interested in your general comments and thoughts about all aspects of the programme and the debate this generates. The panel are a mix of Mumsnetters, all of whom are parents, some pregnant, some not, some have seen the programme before, others haven't.

They would also love any other Mumsnetters - ie folks NOT in the panel - to add their comments here. Anyone who contributes to this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner, drawn at random, will win a £50 Amazon voucher.

So, please post your thoughts and comments on the programme below. We'd welcome 'live' feedback during the broadcast as well as a comment at the end. If you can't post during the broadcast please add your thoughts by the end of Tues Jan 18th.

Additionally - if you haven't already - do have a look at the extra info about the series on the One Born Every Minute website - and let us know on this thread what you think about it.

If you are a panel member please identify yourself as one when you first post.

Many thanks and enjoy!
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OP posts:
ilovesprouts · 17/01/2011 21:34

loveing this this week ,esp the couple we the porn book and the bloody sister of lydia id off send her out side anyone would think she was about to give birth when she was breathing

TotorosOcarina · 17/01/2011 21:34

*an episode

MrsShrekTheThird · 17/01/2011 21:34

i did love how calm Lydia's birth was, tho

TheSkiingGardener · 17/01/2011 21:34

Where are the 2 midwives and their bits this week?

TotorosOcarina · 17/01/2011 21:34

oh heres a 3rd! Grin

AtYourCervix · 17/01/2011 21:34

aha new lady

PrincessBoo · 17/01/2011 21:34

That waterbirth was so lovely, wish she'd refused to get out and have her waters broken though. Everyone they show is so damn compliant!

SilveryMoon · 17/01/2011 21:35

I was just thinking 'where are those 2 lovely mw's from last week?'
I really liked the banter of them working and then doing the little 'interview' bit inbetween

Pesha · 17/01/2011 21:35

Grr at 'Mumsnet offline'. Just lost a long post!

It was a lovely birth, very Envy of a homebirth. Didd seem like there must have been so much they didnt show, I know labour can go on for hours but if they'd cut out the sister blathering on dor instance they coul have shown a lot more of the actual birth and labour which is surely what people are watching this programme for?!

So 3 births this week Hmm

AtYourCervix · 17/01/2011 21:35

and an upright one tooo Shock

Ewe · 17/01/2011 21:36

I'm happy to lose the midwives bit, felt very forced, would be good to have snippets of comment as they go through. That might not be feasible though I guess.

Imps7 · 17/01/2011 21:36

I would really really love to know details about the baby - girl? Boy? Weight? Name?? I LOVE those sorts of details and considering we've just seen the most intimate situation a couple can ever find themselves in, it seems strange to keep those details under wraps.

MrsShrekTheThird · 17/01/2011 21:36

I think I'd have prefered a really frantic buzzed-up tour with the community mws or something for today.
Ahh silvery, not just me then :)

TheSkiingGardener · 17/01/2011 21:36

It's odd, they all seem compliant but I remember being given lots of options and then them acting decisively on my choices. Is it because of the edit they seem so passive?

gingercat12 · 17/01/2011 21:36

Is she going to eat? I was made to starve for days.

MrsShrekTheThird · 17/01/2011 21:37

same as Imps says, perfectly put.

SilveryMoon · 17/01/2011 21:38

I wasn't given anything to eat when I went in with ds1. I was there for nearly 2 days!

TotorosOcarina · 17/01/2011 21:39

oh he let her have a baby, how nice of him Hmm

DH is sat next to me calling him some choice names!

PrincessBoo · 17/01/2011 21:40

There's the lovely midwife.

CountessVonKnackerstein · 17/01/2011 21:40

Ewww that shepherds pie looks minging!
I think I'd like to know what labouring ladies like best to eat..guess chocolate isn't good?

TheSkiingGardener · 17/01/2011 21:40

Community midwives would be excellent shrek. They could follow a different bit each show, ante-natal appointments, ante-natal classes, breastfeeding babes, ultrasounds, community midwives etc.

My husband got a lovely lesson in bathing a baby on the post natal ward from one of the senior midwives here, something like that would be great for just a snapshot of everything else.

TotorosOcarina · 17/01/2011 21:40

horrible being monitored and stuck on the bed

kingprawntikka · 17/01/2011 21:42

I don't remember getting any thing to eat either.

MrsShrekTheThird · 17/01/2011 21:42

sorry but this is getting a bit all, well, samey, I don't normally feel like that with OBEM because they're usually showing so many dimensions of labour and birth and keeping the flow really well.
oh dear, I am a grumpy old bugger tonight

SilveryMoon · 17/01/2011 21:42

OOohh, I'd watch that. Would be great to see bits of the whole process.
As long as they didn't show too much of the stuff we're not interested in (like the mum's sister's view etc)