OBEM USA - anyone watching?

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Who's in? I'm really interested to see what's different in America.

MousyMouse, I had one midwife who didn't talk to me and who took blood from me without telling me what she was doing. It was infuriating!

but I would slap dh if he were to moan with me :o

18 hours? Pah....

Could be totally wrong here, but did I read somewhere that in some states a homebirth can lead to criminal charges being brought against the mother?

'This is precious cargo and we wanna make sure that...' we don't get sued?

The dad is nice though, supporting her. What are they recommending?

"'This is precious cargo and we wanna make sure that...' we don't get sued?"

Well, I guess even without a lawsuit, delivering a dead or damaged baby puts kind of a dampener on the mood.

Wikipedia tells me I'm wrong... but I think it is the attending midwife who can get into trouble in some states rather than the mother. Def read something recently but can't remember where...

23 hours of labour? I was at home for longer than that in labour, our hospital would have sent me home rather than forcing drugs on me!

That was the only birth that made me smile. Good for them.

'delivered, their way.'

Their way?!?

Me too reddaisy. Ah well, thanks for your company ladies. DH away tonight. Sleep tight x

I smiled too. And maybe just cried a bit :)

reddaisy I think in some states a homebirth is illegal now - partly because it's been made impossible for midwives to get insurance to attend births outside of medical units.

My god, my birth with a bit of paracetamol is a million miles from these births, they ALL have an epidural. God knows what they would have thought of me.

Is is just that because it is private healthcare the hospital get to bill the insurance companies for every bit of medication they give so they want to give as much as possible?

Hurray for Susan!

It must be easier for the staff this way, no loud screaming. Now the programme I want to see is an American midwife coming over to the UK to do a job swap! I would switch on for that!

I posted a link by a feminist midwife on the 'maternity on tv' thread. Can't link from phone but worth a read.

I read Naomi Wolf's Misconceptions over 10 years ago which anaylsed the USA birth experience. I thought it was exaggerated: sadly not it would seem.

From what I understand homebirth is illegal in some states in America. (from American ladies on another forum I use)

I found this really hard to watch, so much intervention and at a 90% epidural rate. I wonder what the c-section rate is?

I do wonder how much finances are involved in the provision of drugs etc during labour as obviously the more medical intervention, the more money is made.

Yes! (mid)Wife swap! Got to be done.

CaptainBarnacle - let's get mumsnet to delete our last posts and we can pitch our idea to Channel4 before some producer steals it off us. I am also only half joking!

oh I wish I had been following with you guys cos I was getting so cross with it all too.
Epidurals all round then. And the shock when she said no

I wondered at that too. Lets just shove all these drugs into you, who cares if we shoot it into the babies bloodstream too, just keep it down will ya!

But ok, chanting oooopeeeen. Was a touch odd to me.

Though, in my head I did find myself envisaging a flower opening (it was a touch random, even as I thought it I followed it with , you weirdo ), but I kept that thought to myself. I did not chant it loudly.

midwife swap. God yeah but it would be a real shame for the british ones who would want to scream with frustration!!

Oops sorry. Yes I don't have freeview, I was meaning that I was hoping it would be on C4 but guessing it would be on freeview. If that makes sense.

midwife swap sounds ood, why did they ive pet when she was 8cm, 23 hrs is not abnormal?