Its Wednesday again! OBEM time.

[BarnYardCow]

Have we any new arrivals since last week?

They don't tape your eyes for a spinal section

Slinky why is opting for a GA odd? I chose to have a GA three times. I have no desire to be awake whatsoever

Mayan - they don't usually tape eyes for a Section...

Cecy....I was thinking the same and as she was having the GA and listening to her explanation about it thought..... she's gonna milk this one .

IME (well certainly HCP's on my team) are very understanding of those with fears)

Oh that is making me sniffle. I have no recolletion of being told what I had. Very odd.

They haven't really helped themselves though, have they?

Having two children with SEN must be incredibly stressful :(

Nickname, she had a panic attack when they were trying to do her spinal and requested a GA.

Cute baby Evelyn! And thank you for tape/eye knowledge

Sorry HDee didn't mean to offend. I guess I thought as she'd had a cs before she would be ok.

Just shows every person and birth is different

I really dislike that dad.

It was the the baby needing help that confused me (can't watch this program straight).

The spinal is my least favourite part and if she was having a panic attack probably safer with that needle to have a GA but harder on you and baby to recover from I'm told.

I think the mw and my birth partner being so jokey would make me furious!!

Awwwww

Same Zara! THat would seriously piss me off.

No they havn't helped themselves... they both have been stomping around making demands without any thought for why they were having to wait, working themselves up into a fever pitch. They have to take some of that on board

Aw, Jacob is just beautiful.

There is someone whose job it is to blur every trace of vagina from around baby's head - what a task! :o

My husband is always very jokey with the team (his way of dealing with it), for me it helps if he went all feathery strokey I'd probably deck him.

Of all the thing he could have said about his beautiful daughter and he chooses 'she's got a right gob on 'er' FFS!

It's the mw's job to be so positive, particularly as the couple are so negative and pessimistic - she's trying to get them to see on the bright side.

Naww! Look at Jacob! I want a squidgy newborn on my chest!

Agree, Raver - they stressed themselves out. And they knew what might happen.

A girl is a "happy start"?? Those poor boys :(

Don't like those 2. Appreciate her fears but hey.

Glad she is bonding with the baby...