The Midwives: Tonight BBC1 9pm

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Anyone planning to see if BBC can be better for the blood pressure than OBEM?

I don't understand why they don't do a c section if the baby is in danger? :( meconium in waters thing. Particularly given she's already lost a child?

This programme is really scaring me - is it like this at every hospital??!

breathe

Because she is fully dilated. They would have to push him back up and that is more dangerous.

what? dp made me switch off, hes so squeemish, but i can't do sad either - tell me it all worked out ok, why "oh god" ?

Oh god oh god oh god. Poor parents, this must be so hard

Is the baby that colour because of the meconium?

This is hard to watch. That must be the longest few minutes ever. That poor woman.

It seems more informative than OBEM and less about the characters.

oh no, ive just switched back on - fuck fuck fuck those poor poor people :(

:( poor baby, poor mum and dad. :(

poor hubby he looks beside himself

It's definitely more documentary and less fly on the wall, isn't it?

This is awful :(

I don't want to give birth now. I'm frightened.

This is much sadder than OBEM, glad this wasn't on when I was pregnant

I remember when ds2 didn't cry, I was screaming, why hasn't he cried, over and over again, I certainly wasn't as calm as her!

He did cry and was fine, but it took soo long, probably wasn't but felt an age!

Crying!

will all pregnant women please turn this off now!

I don't have confidence in that blonde woman - she seems like the type who would ignore what you were saying!!!

Oh heck, blonde midwife is back

DD was blue when she came out thanks to a cord round her neck. Had to be put in the recusitator - crowds of people round her. Horrible.

I really wouldn't watch this if I were pregnant and I was addicted to obem

Oh now it the blonde one again!

Pickles don't make it scare you, not all deliveries are like this, I'm sure you'll be fine. FWIW I had straightforward deliveries and lovely midwives

Pickles don't be scared! This may be less sensationalist than OBEM, but they are still going to pick the stories that are out of the ordinary.

I had a prem labour (31+5) with DS, and a forceps delivery, and it was absolutely fine.

Please don't worry. If these programmes only showed the MULTITUDE of normal births, it wouldn't be entertaining!
Scary stuff does happen, but things are generally straightforward.