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The Midwives

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GrannyRat · 14/08/2012 21:02

Ooh this is my local hospital - my DCs were born there.

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marshmallowpies · 14/08/2012 22:42

My granny lived in East Wirral & was a very proper kind of lady (called scones 'scoanes', had a silver teapot for best) so am glad to hear all the love for East Wirral here! I have very fond memories of visiting her there.

My dad was born there during the war but expect back in those days it was a nursing home rather than hospital.

Lovely programme & a good replacement while OBEM is off air.

Growlithe · 15/08/2012 07:49

Just watched this on Iplayer. I thought Rachel was the most level headed an sensible mum of them all, including the posh one. She went into the whole thing with her eyes wide open, and was so very honest. I cried when she kissed her baby's head after she gave birth. Also, her partner, while looking a bit shell shocked, was there and supporting her all the time in a sensible way. Best of luck to them.

Zhx3 · 15/08/2012 11:52

Teared up at Rachel at the end.

Arrowe Park sent me home when my contractions were 3 or 4 minutes apart, and told me to call them when my waters broke. I had my baby in my bathroom 10 minutes after my waters went (to be fair, 14 hours later). My poor husband had to deliver him!

Luckily there were no problems, but it could have all gone so wrong. Took the paramedics 10 minutes to reach us after baby was born, and the midwife 20 minutes.

uselfullife · 15/08/2012 13:02

just caught up now
cried when she kissed Rose's head
Very brave of her to be so honest about not bonding

I think the East/West is a bit exaggerated, but it just shows the different environments, makes it easier for programme makers to show the divide like that
Some of those 'poorer' houses I would kill to live in!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 15/08/2012 13:35

I hope Rachel and her partner stay together - they both seem so sweet.

I had ds2 and ds3 at home, but I only had one midwife each time - I guess it varies between health authorities.

SophySinclair · 16/08/2012 00:40

Jesus that midwife pissed me off. She doesn't need an epidural???? How the fuck would she know?????

bronze · 16/08/2012 01:22

I looked for a bloody thread
And still missed this one
I think because I was thinking of it being called how te other half push rather than just the midwives
Or maybe I should have just gone to end
Will read it all in the morning

FYP · 16/08/2012 12:09

I didn't like that midwife who was basically laughing at her off camera and making fun of her for wanting an epidural, very mean.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 16/08/2012 12:50

In fairness, Sophy, maybe there was edited-out footage that we didn't see, that explained why she didn't need an epidural.

valiumredhead · 16/08/2012 16:52

Can you imagine the uproar if people were expected to have teeth pulled without proper pain relief? And yet women are sneered at and expected to take a couple of paracetemol while giving birth! Pain is what the patient say it is - some MW's and nurses would do well to remember that!

Liz79 · 16/08/2012 22:22

What the mw actually said was "i don't think she needs an epidural (ie I think she's coping really well), but she can have one if she wants it" maybe Rachel decided she didn't want it, she didn't come across as being well informed about labour & pain relief options. Perhaps her informed choice was against it after the mw had explained.

lozster · 18/08/2012 07:23

Just watched on I-player and was depressed to hear the mid wife trot out the tired old daily mail stereotype of older mothers delaying pregnancy due to them 'choosing' to have holidays and a career. Depiction of the Wirral as having a Berlin wall style divide was also pretty lazy journalism.

LilyBolero · 20/08/2012 15:32

JUst watched this - thought Rachel was v mature!

Homebirths - I had homebirths for 3 of mine, and am sure the use of resources is much less than a hospital birth - had 1 community mw, until the end, then 2 mws for the actual birth, but for dd my main mw was in the house less than an hour in total, the other mw was there 20 mins or so! ds2 was longer, and for ds3 it was maybe 3 hours in the house....(those times include time after the birth). But no bed taken up, no equipment used, no doctors times etc. And they were community midwives, not hospital midwives, so they weren't taken off the labour ward, and had they not been here, they would have been in bed!

But wrt the HB lady, I thought she was very sweet, I did wonder how she would respond if she had to be transferred, or if things didn't go to plan - as it happened they did, but I think the key to a homebirth is an open mind, because sometimes things don't happen as planned, and if you've put a lot of stock by 'how it's going to be' I think it can be hard to come to terms with if it doesn't happen like you planned.

I think perhaps they could have emphasised that a bit more with her!

Felt Sad for Danielle, she needed someone to look after her.

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