Meee-lene on OBEM tonight!!

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How exciting!

I wish they would have sound proof rooms. It definitely freaked me out to hear screaming all night.

hahahhahah, do I think the screams make other women nervous? Like you have room in your brain to consider such things? hahahhahaha

He didn't want to look and then she made him!

She is gorgeous.

Blubber!

I screamed after a 2 day labour ending in forceps with no pain relief - utterly shocking amount of pain. I mooed through number 2 and twas wonderful and needed a bit of g and a at the end - best experience of my life!!

Agree with you Show

DD1 contractions were hideously painful.. the MW couldn't understand why the strength of them weren't doing anything. (27 hours,induced,epidural, forceps, back to back, shoulder dystosia the lot!)

DD2 however was the opposite.. I got to 10cm with no pain relief at all at home. Bloody hurt but having a 21mth old watching you is enough to hold it all with just very deep breathes, jigging about and false smiles. :) She was also back to back.

No time to get the glove on!

Stranded I remember reading awhile back how one of the reasons hospital births can have a negative effect on labour and the birthing mother is that all the screaming they hear causes then anxiety.
That said the screaming doesn't have to be negative for some it can be productive. But we are programmed when we hear screaming to get into a fight or flight mode.

Hope she doesn't have a bad tear from that...

Wowsers!

Great size !

I thought watching this would put me off having a baby but it's having the opposite effect

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK. That was a big baby and she looked so fucking cool throughout the whole thing.

I have birth moo shame

Didn't explain that well I mean it cause anxiety in turn causing things like contractions stop, adrenaline pumping etc.

Oh, next week looks FAB!

Ah no is teacake loving Midwife leaving

I'd have loved a birth like the 43 yr old lady had. So glad she got the experience she wanted.
Going to hug my baby now. He's a whomping great 5 year old now though.

Better than birth poo shame. I never had that oh no not at all

no she was on about her new bf i think. awww the old midwife is leaving!!

I had two long back to back labours. Both babies moved to transverse, though dd was also asynclitic. One horrifically sore, one barely smarted. Both ended in emcs.

I didn't scream btw. Too shocked.