Obem 20.03.2013

[NotAQueef]

Anyone watching tonight?
Couldn't find a thread.
Like this couple so far

This program reminds me why I am a midwife.

I bawl my eyes out every time.

I always tell students to practice as though they are being filmed for OBEM and try to do the same.

Being a midwife is one of the scariest and bestest jobs EVER! I am a midwife and proud!

Just watched the end now going to watch start in C4+1

There's 18m between DD1 & 2. I had a HB planned for DD2 but age just didn't want to come out so I was booked in for an induction at 40+14. We had moved to a new area, knew no one, I was facing giving birth alone too luckily DD2 decided to arrive the day before the induction and I had a lovely homebirth 2 1/2 hour labour, DD1 was asleep in the room next door, have lovely DVD of her coming in and meeting her new baby sister. And then again when DD3 was born 2 1/2 years later.

Zatopek you are right, every birth is still a birth, I wasn't thinking, I do apologise watching OBEM makes me irrationally emotional. Please may I correct my last comment to, "I am in awe of every woman who has given birth "

I had a section after 24 hours of labour, had every single drug going and still didn't manage a vaginal birth.

However, I can recognise pnd a mile away, due to own experiences....

Ooh, are you me Shakey? I had exactly the same birth experience.

The result of which is happily snoozing away upstairs. Every birth that produces a healthy baby is a success, surely?

Lovely Sweetkitty, that sort of scenario is exactly what we are hoping to achieve.

Do you think you will be able to convince any of your friends to have a planned homebirth? Midwives love home births, we want more!

Ruth if I had a quid for each person who said "you'll be fine cos you are a midwife and know what to do"

I would be very rich.

Being a midwife did not make my experience less shit... I just knew it was shit

Mine wasn't the experience I had planned or thought I wanted, yet oddly I still enjoyed it.

Thank god for sleeping children

Shaky - I've had two homebirths and two hospital births. IME community midwives were quite anti HB. I remember my booking in with DS and saying I would like another HB, the looks I got then I got the threat of PPH as it was no4 and my first boy (eh?), MWs living miles away etc. In the end I asked to be induced due to SPD, previous precip labours and wanting to know when he would arrive having 3 other children and a lack of childcare. It was a good induction though one shot of gel and whoosh, the least painful too. I've had 4 good births I see it as my trade off for awful pregnancies