AH is a silly simpering girly.
Apart from that it was actually quite interesting. I agree with Fibilou that there was a decent cross section of births shown. If anything, it highlighted for me the downside of a medicalised birth with epidural - the baby's heart rate falling and the baby becoming distressed once the woman had the epidural, and ending with an instrumental delivery. I don't agree with auntymartha that it was necessarily a lack of support which led to that - from what was could see, the woman was very out of control and not coping with the pain. If the midwife had encouraged her not to have the spidural you can bet there would be a long thread on here about the barbaric hospital not allowing the woman her rights!!
The floppy baby was frightening though - and it definitely felt like things had taken a downturn medically once that epidural went in, which again, I think in the current climate is interesting tv - you just don't usually see it as it really is.