The Sex Education Show (Ch 4)

[GreenMonkies]

Is anyone watching it?

It's childbirth this week, and it's in the hospital I work/had DD1 in! How bizzarre!!!

So far the only shots of a woman in labour are of a woman lying on her back, how disappointing.....

No wonder labour is taking so long...

Well, this is terrible, isn't it?

Shite so far

ha ha, there are the cucumbers I mentioned !!!

I'm thinking that there must be some reason why she's in at such an early stage, and hooked up to the monitor too.

VP have you got insider info?

its all very childish isnt it
I mean it could have been done so much better- the content is very good but made terrible by her very immature attitude.

But by god she is very pretty isnt she fabulous teeth

will we get another formula ad do you think?

and I am going to get very stressed it I have to watch that woman give birth on her back whilst being told to push.......

Greenmonkies, I lay on my back for both of mine (9.3 and 10.14) (oh boy do I know about episiotemies) - should I not have ??

my innocent ( I thought) ds2 is drawing in corner half listening/watching.
When the stats came up...
Asked
Is having a finger in someone considered sexual contact?
I answered yes, erm why darling boy?
He said vaguely
Oh the stats are about right then I reckon

My dreams are shattered.
Too scared to ask him more
He is not obviously interacting with girls. No msn/texting etc

Eeks

VP, holy shit no!!!

on your feet or on your knees, opens the pelvis, takes the pressure off the perinium and reduces the need for epidural

she must have been induced. the midwife said she was not in labour.

can't imagine why they'd keep her in, especially hooked up like that.

ds1 I meant he is 14.5
Ds2 is just 18mths

Hmm, had epidural, so perhaps thats why they didn't move me about much. The anaethenatist (spell!) said I was bony and couldn't get the needle in, I was most impressed, I've never been called bony for years, in fact ever ! Must go back there again for more compliments (not).

get off your back
get off your back
get off your back

sigh

i'd say induced, the second midwife is hovering with the post birth injection.

t shirt off, baby on chest, come on, what do they teach the MW's?????

hmm i wasnt allowed to use the gas and air during the pushing stage - might have to just hold on to it this time round

stand!!!
3 quick easy births
Upright rules ok

Now what do we talk about, will I have to move on and find an interesting AIBU ??

I was thinking that Conkertree, I feel cruely robbed now!
It was lovely though, never usually like watching births, must be the gin, but I'm all teary

I didn't see an line in her at all, (did anyone notice if she had a drip in?) so unless they induced her with pessaries I don't think she was, she was just on her back, sitting on her tailbone and stopping her own baby from coming out. They hovver like that with the synto injection even if you're not induced.

And VP, it's hard to be upright when you've had an epidural!! But then, some say (and I'm one of them) that if you stay upright you don't generally need that level of pain relief!

I had to find this thread. Whatever the mother's position, I cried when seeinng the baby born. Why do I always do that? Especially as I didn't shed a tear when gorgeous DD was born (think I was just too happy to even cry!).

Have to say though, sod lying on your back when giving birth!! Crouching (just with G&A) worked for me with 9.9lb DD!

They paid a bit of lip service to the idea of squatting/standing, but it was a little disappointing to see the same old 'pushing on your back' routine. Although finding a woman and her partner who would agree to be filmed may have been tricky...

she deffo had a drip into her wrist