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am i the first?

sophable- exactly. Get her moving!

With both my back to backs they had turned during labour as they were the first way the day before.

DD1 was turned with vontouse, then out with forceps.
DD2 was born stargazing (looking up) with vontouse.

I agree BooBoo, they all seem to be lying down. My MW was almost insistent I stay on my feet for as long as poss. Not right in all cases I accept..

They can't, she's had the epi.

I do love watching this programme but find it increasingly frustrating watching all these women labouring on their backs.

Feel like throwing my Active Birth book at the screen every week.

she's had an epidural so not mobile. So depressing that so many women seem to end up with major interventions because malpositioned baby when they've been lying about the whole time on their backs.

I had a 10lb 2oz b2b on just G&A.

Why, why, why are they always on their backs in this bloody programme?

She's had an epidural hasn't she? And I think the poor woman is knackered, it is 3 days since her waters went.

nobody ever moves off the bed in this program. i think they must glue em down. i remember being all over the room for dd1, i even tried to do a runner when she was crowning!

lol - coke in a bottle Just wondering do they add flouride in the water in Southampton? If they do it doesn't seem to work very well.

Agree that they are always on their backs though, very depressing.

SO frustrating.

also, as i remember it from the consultant obstetric anaesthetist on here the other day, nearly all epidurals can be mobile ones. SO WTF AREN'T THEY???

ouch

they don't add fluoride in Southampton yet, they keep trying to but people keep protesting against it

WTF are they doing?! Women have b2b babies every day!

oh god i can't watch.

I think it's the fear tbh. SHe has just been told her baby is back to back, with a very sensationalisede explination of what that actually means. Noone explained to me that I could expect a longer and more painful labour first time round, so I had an epidural and 3 hours of pushing til dd was born facing gthe ceiling. It was only afterwards that every midwife in the damn place seemed to tell me what an achievement it was
Second time, I was armed with information and tbh a stubborn attitude. There was no way they were keepign me on that bed attatched to every monitor in the ward. My baby's seem to lie posterior, apparently it's how my pelvis tilts. I was very lucky to have a supportive midwife second time round, and ds turned all by himself just before birth. These midwives just seem too busy and too hurried

sophable - with ds1, i never even heard of a mobile epidural at the time, wasn't offered it, wasn't discussed. would ask for one now.

She had a rupture of membranes well over 48h ago, has now been contracting for a very long time, the baby's heart rate was suggesting that it wasn't happy in the very first shot we saw and due to exhaustion ad her ow request she has now had an epidural. The baby is not in the ideal position and when she was trying to push with the midwife's hand there to feel what she was doing there was very little push to feel.

While I completely agree that it is best to move around, try to open the pelvis and I sit there shouting at the screen when all these low risk women are lying on their backs this lady is gradually becoming very high risk and worrying.

No wonder 'baby doesnt want to play the game' when she's in that theatre with all that medical paraphenalia.

those forceps look very scary!

God babies are so tough to cope with foreceps aren't they, we handle them with kid gloves once the are born but they can withstand so much coming out!

Looks horiffic

I've gone!