Dawn Porter - truth about birth

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Did anyone else see it?

it was teh first documentary about child birth i have ever watched and thought was good.

DP was totally clueless and terrified of child birth. she looked into all the possibilities and managed to relieve her own fears through education.

I think it should be used in schools.

to be fair, though, i do think it would work well as a schools documentary, to be shown to boys and girls of around 14.

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dd (16), saw this with me last night... thought Dawn Porter a total wuss. Mind you dd was one of my birth partners when I had ds two years ago.

I thought DP should forget about potential changes to her figure and how tight her fanny would be afterwards!

Could see that it might appeal to 14 - 16 but she irritated me.

ah well you see that's where we differ, i don't feel patronised when someone who knows about their subject comes on telly to educate me about it, i feel educated.

some would call watching a grown woman google and giggle her way though a documentary unprofessional and in its own way patronising, as if people aren't bright enough to hear the facts delivered straight. (this is in fact the bbc3 way, oh yes it is).

still, be comforted that you are part of a growing demographic. i despair at what television will become by the time i am older.

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what? it's dumbing-down is what it is.

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right, so the choice is between moronic and uber-serious, is it? bit simplistic don't you think? listen, bbcthree is all about the dumbing down, they know it and we know it.

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i didn't call you moronic, i called the documentary moronic. it was, no question about it.

tentative congrats Expat !

I didn't like it, I thought she came across as a moron.

OMG, so that's what fannies can do, too!

What I find annoying is that my TV license is going to fund 'documentaries' with information that one can get just from Googleing.

All of it. Including videos of women giving birth.

And then paying someone to giggle like a 13-year-old on camera and call it programming.

Thanks, NDP. Here's hoping! BUt no matter how it works out, I needed an excuse to go on a health kick - that's how I'm looking at it.

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i'm afraid it does look that way, MF.

It wasn't aimed at experienced mums. It's strange how all of the people who hated it still watched it all.

So as to say, whizz, that you've never sat through an entire film that you kept hoping it improved and then it didn't, so as a consequence you hated it?

Ditto read a book?

Hard to believe you haven't.

I sat through it hoping things would turn around but they didn't.

So as a consequence, I didn't like it.

Well actually if I found someone in a film as annoying as some people find Dawn I probably would switch off.

I think most of the peopel that hated the presenter were interested in how the births were going to go rather than watching it because of Dawn they watched in spite of her.
At least I did.
I linked the iplayer of it to my antenatal thread as well, not because of her, but because we are all going to give birth in the next month!

oh i always watch until the bitter end. same with books. and like vs i watched despite dp, because i am a sucker for birth programmes, even ones that are more concerned with fanny tightness than actual maternity.

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