OBEM - is it on? Can anyone be bothered?

[StarlightDicKenzie]

So, is it still on?

Argh, vomit

I genuinely didn't know that it was so common to vomit during labour.

I do always wonder why people think it would be in any way helpful to keep telling themselves "I can't do it!"

How many more episodes are there in this series?

I'm hoping if there is another series its back in the old hospital.

God I've punched that husband by now.

Luckily when i was at similar stage DH had the good sense to stay behind his Sunday paper - still my abiding memory of labour

Fanjo, I think the midwife is trying to be positive, rather than dismissive...

Backback. I took one last night and could hardly eat all day today but feel really sick still. I have to take another in a minute!

The "Not Painful" midwife is fantastic, going by the births she's been involved in. Really calm, relaxed, encouraging - and unlike most of the others who seem to feel the need to scream "push" none stop at the mothers, she seems to tell them not to push sometimes and to let baby do a lot of the work.

However, having never given birth, I don't actually know if this is the mark of a good midwife or not!

Chirpy midwife is hilarious

Is that MW just putting that voice on for TV or is it her real voice?

Anyone seen the Disney film Enchanted?! Think Chirpy definitely belongs there!

Tin - fingers up to the very top inside you vagina and into the cervix. It is your cervix that dilates (opens up). One hand!

I actually know someone who is just like anna (weird midwife) she is a nurse

She's a little bit Bonnie Langford isn't she?

I'll thscweem and thscweem and thscweem!

I wouldnt have felt very positive when I was in agony if she had said labour wasn't painful

Oh my god. I can't BEAR her.

Chirpy midwife must have given me a spoonful of sugar... I find her so funny that I am starting to love her!

Ohh, can I join in late? Was watching without MN open but its less fun.
The yellow t shirt mum is a bit annoying. Probably just cos she reminds me of what I was like in labour

Tinoftiger. They use 2 fingers inside your vagina to feel the cervix. They seperate the fingers inside and can tell how dilated you are that way.

NINE BLOODY CENTIMETERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yy to Bonnie Langford!

Labour pain is empowering - no, it's fucking painful. I'd want one that understands, not talking shite.