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The Baby Has Landed

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Sotiredsomuch · 27/11/2019 21:05

Anyone watching?

I love stuff like this.

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bullyingadvice2017 · 29/11/2019 21:37

I felt like the 5 kids dad was living his wife's dream too. They basically admitted he would have been happy with two, then four, what will that make them kids feel like watching that when older.
I don't think anyone's said anything horrible about sylers family. Her mother appeared over involved and I say that as someone who had my first whilst living with my mother. If you go on tv you give people something to talk about. You must have known that.

wonderstuff · 29/11/2019 22:14

EleanorReally advice hasn't changed, but the number of midwives and health visitors working in the NHS has fallen significantly. Healthcare assistants are doing a lot of the work that HV and midwives used to do, at a fraction of the salary and training.

EleanorReally · 29/11/2019 22:16

thanks @wonderstuff, how worrying

CaptainMyCaptain · 30/11/2019 07:56

A few years ago I was shocked to learn that new mothers in my area have to get themselves to the clinic to see the midwife or HV instead of a home visit. Surely this leaves the most vulnerable women with no transport, other small children in tow etc or just can't be bothered at huge risk.

BTW when I had a baby in 1980 you had to lie them on their back so they didn't choke on their vomit and keep them warm with blankets. That had all changed by the time my grandchildren came along.

EleanorReally · 30/11/2019 08:11

actually re the dad smoking, it is all in the editing, they specifically show us the smoking, then the bedtime, not really necessary, just put their for us to judge isnt it. camera men. we need to see through them

DuckWillow · 30/11/2019 12:34

Don’t deactivate your account @SylerB1. Hats off to you for doing this programme.

I loved watching it and I thought your partner was amazing as he was having to cope with stuff that culturally men don’t do where he’s from.

purpleme12 · 30/11/2019 20:21

My heart melted when the mum cried at the start cos she was overdue and her little boys were comforting her and they said 'we're best friends' ♥️

purpleme12 · 30/11/2019 20:27

Oh my god absolute chaos with the big family!

everybodyneedsomebody · 30/11/2019 20:58

Just finished watching the first episode!

Isn’t the guidance that a newborn’s feet should be to the bottom of the cot so they can’t wiggle under the blankets and suffocate? I’m genuinely asking as that’s what I’ve read and been told but I was shocked to see Syler and Mo’s baby put right in the middle, thick blanket over him Sad surely even if you haven’t been directly informed by a midwife at any point during pregnancy classes, you’d do some research yourself around basics like that because you want to keep them safe? Fully happy to be told I’m wrong though and that the feet to foot guidance is out of date.

I thought the gay couple seemed well prepared, it’s easy to laugh at any soon to be parents saying they’re ready but all they really mean is they’re as prepared as they can be and have done all they can! I’m pretty sure everyone understands they can only be so ready for first time parenting lol. And the sneering about buying cute baby shoes is just nasty, many many new parents do the same as part of getting excited and ready.

I thought they came across loads better than the family with five kids tbh, the gay couple said they’d been seriously discussing and planning for three years, they clearly were emotionally in a place where they were excited to become parents and had a secure environment waiting for their babies, compared to the family of seven which just seemed like utter chaos, no time to enjoy each new baby before another arrives shortly after, that poor little girl when her parents got back from hospital running to her mum and being made to wait for a bloody photo to be taken Sad she was still so small yet it worried me what little was shown, didn’t seem like each child could get much one on one attention, mum hung up on the idea of a busy chaotic house regardless of what the reality of it might have been for her actual kids, and pulling along a consenting but clearly reluctant father with her. I had to laugh at him saying they were organised while they had little ones running out into the driveway, the smallest swinging off a stair gate at the top of the stairs (!), sat quite a way away from the little boy holding the newborn being unknowingly rough as her head flopped back. Just seemed like an unpleasant environment with a lot of noise and not much love, dad even looked distracted and bored reading a story to one of the kids.

Obviously it’s edited from a lot more footage and nobody is perfect but those were my initial thoughts, gonna watch the rest when they’re released. The two little boys Ezra and Elijah were an absolute joy, such empathetic sweet smart little kids, and you can see from their parents where they get it from, just a lovely family.

Babybel90 · 30/11/2019 21:13

I just watched this, I liked Syler and Mo, they seemed like a sweet couple although I was wincing at the fleecy blanket in the cot.

I can’t say I understand the surrogate myself, I know I wouldn’t be able to give those babies away if I’d carried them for 9 months and it seems unfair on her existing children and husband.

I really felt sorry for the children from the large family, all born so close together, it must make it difficult for each child to get enough attention, and to do things together as a family without military levels of planning and their house looked like a jumble sale.

SnugglySnerd · 30/11/2019 21:23

I liked all the families. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

Sotiredsomuch · 30/11/2019 21:32

Notice the middle class mum isn’t on here shouting the odds about the awful things we’ve said Hmm

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everybodyneedsomebody · 30/11/2019 21:33

Which one was the middle class mum?

purpleme12 · 30/11/2019 21:34

I don't understand why people are saying all the quite negative things about the gay dads. I couldn't see anything negative. Yes they might be in for a shock but no more than any other new parents would be.
Yes they bought things for the babies so called accessories but there's nothing wrong with that and it doesn't mean they'll see the babies as accessories or be any less good etc

purpleme12 · 30/11/2019 21:35

Yes what is the middle class mum?!

ewwsweatyunderboob · 30/11/2019 21:35

The big family

Babybel90 · 30/11/2019 21:46

@purpleme12 I agree, I bought baby converse and other pointless baby accessories when I was pregnant, I had the disposable income so why not?

everybodyneedsomebody · 30/11/2019 21:50

I didn’t think any of the families were middle class tbh, other than possibly the two dads! Based on the family of seven’s house and the mum’s job I would have thought they were quite clearly working class (nothing wrong with that, so am I, but seeing as someone else has raised it).

Sotiredsomuch · 30/11/2019 22:00

Just shows how different our perceptions of class can be. I would not have put them as middle class at all.

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Sotiredsomuch · 30/11/2019 22:01

I mean the gay couple btw.

It was the big family I saw as middle class.

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Babybel90 · 30/11/2019 22:04

I didn’t think the large family were middle class until they said what the mums job had been, but on first impressions I thought they were working class. I thought the two gay men were working class but upwardly mobile.

Sotiredsomuch · 30/11/2019 22:15

What was her job again? Wish I could remember.

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Babybel90 · 30/11/2019 22:17

I think it was medic and diplomat.

purpleme12 · 30/11/2019 22:20

It said paramedic

Sotiredsomuch · 30/11/2019 22:20

Ahh yes you’re right

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