One Born Every Minute Take 2

[McDreamy]

Over here!

i like dominique's style, would have suited me. wish someone told me to do "soft face", i ended up with 3 days of severe neck pain post-natally, from straining so much!

Interesting to watch Darren and Sarah's view of his support here.

My heart broke for Lisa trying to cope with her feelings and be there for her son.

Oh apparently Darren was using reverse psychology on Sarah, and there were we all thinking he was a prat....perhaps we need to do a management course

lifebegins.channel4.com/parents/mothers/sarah/sarah-and-darren-reflect-on-zacharys- birth/

Ah yes, DH used reverse psychology on me too. Something about how it was getting ridiculous and we should just go home til it got going properly. I freaked and started screaming my head off. Turned out I'd been busy going from 2 to 6 cm, which is probably why I was in quite a lot of pain (to put it mildly). I've never let him forget it to this day.

Just watched this on 4OD - love this series. Is anyone else intrigued by next week's preview of the couple who are clearly planning to name their child something extremely quirky, given that they're told 'the Registrar can refuse to register certain names'...Cannot wait!

excellent programme--got to 9.50 last night when baby wasn`t crying and had to give someone a liftlong wait until 10.50 to see outcome -Channel 4 plus 1 is great.
wonder if that awful husband is reading this?!

Must say I'm in the pro-Dominique camp...but you never can tell what sort of personality is going to work for you until you get there, can you?

Watched this with DH, which had the very useful effect of making him retrospectively realise how good he'd been at DS1's birth (even though he absolutely hated it). I think he had Darren's number with his comment: 'it's David Brent does childbirth, isn't it?'

Oh, Darren seems quite a sweet chap, actually in the explanation afterwards. Nice chilled couple I think.

Wish they'd shown more of the water birth - the build up etc. I'm due in September and thinking now that this might well be the way to go. Only problem is, no painkillers...

Having seen the clip on the channel 4 website showing Sarah and Darren talking at home after the birth I feel much more positively towards Darren now. He clearly was trying to do his best for his wife (not just being a complete arse as it came across on the tely) and it seems that they were both really pleased with the outcome. Congratulations to them both, but especially Sarah of course!

Like most of these kinds of TV programs, they are only able to show you half (if that) of the picture - so you can form a very biased view of people! It's good that extra clips on websites can now give you an better view of things.

The midwives in this series all seem to be amazing. I hope mine is/are like that!

The clip of Sarah and Darren is here

The editing of this program sems to be biased towards women having unrealistic expectations with mother and/or baby having a rough ride and to have some kind of mission to prove that all men are useless birthing partners.

It is beginning to annoy me now!!!

Agree that Darren comes across much better on the website clips. Also have to take account of editing and remember that in all the long labour he could have been fantastic but they might just have shown the clip of him losing it.

Just spoken to Lisa's MIL and sent on collective, love and best wishes from you all.

Am I the only person who likes watching this because I can actually taste the G&A?

Thank God in heaven that baby was OK!! Have to confess, had to switch off at adverts as too distressing and went to bed hoping and praying the little chap was OK, even woke in the night worrying. Thanks MNetters for letting me find out and big hugs to baby Jack and Sarahs boy xx

Great thread. Yup, those were the worst adverts I've ever had to sit through. Advertising hairspray when a baby's life may be in the balance, I just thought it was 'eww'. Thank god the wee lad is fine.

Guys, I don't know if you've noticed, but the 'coming up' clips shown so far have referred to coming up later in the series, not necessarily coming up next week.

I think we may have to wait longer than next week to see more of (no) Joy, and that new couple discussing God as a baby name.

Joy made me laugh last week - poor woman was soo fed up. Not anything to laugh about really but I think it was the clip of her saying that she wasn't that maternal and wasn't sure about this baby lark which had me in stitches - all I could think was "too late now Joy". I really liked her - hope she comes in as an MNer. Oh and snapping at her husband because his walking about was giving her a headache.

Joy was the star of the how for me too, I too am PG and wondering if I even want to be.

I will moan endlessly, I just know it!

darren, dad of the decade left a stroppy post here...

primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/last-night%e2%80%99s-tv-%e2%80%93-one-born-every-minut e-2/

dork

darren dad of the decade left a snotty post here.

primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/last-night%e2%80%99s-tv-%e2%80%93-one-born-every-minute- 2/

not sure if my last msg got thru

I feel a bit sorry for Darren today, apparently there is even a Facebook group about him now.
Think we have to remember that we saw just a tiny fraction of the labour and that the man could have been a saint most of the time with the editors choosing only to show a stressed rant (which as a midwife I saw men do sometimes out of fear, anxiety etc).
The extra footage on the website of darren and Sarah talking about the birth makes much more sense in the general scheme of things although I have to confess I was also calling him all the silly sods under the sun last night.

Although I would have lamped my DH if he had said those things to me during my VBAC attempt, I thought Darren seemed quite frightened by the prospect of repeating the previous experience, and he just lost it for a minute.

I think it's pretty hard on the partners to sit there for hours being endlessly positive and supportive when they have their own concerns and are frowned on for voicing them.

My DH was brilliant, but I don't know if I could have done as well in his place. I think Darren has had pretty rough treatment on this thread.

I did think his management comments were hilarious, though.

I too was shouting at the TV last night and agree that Darren did not come off well in the slightest BUT I kind of feel it probably best to let this lie now as it is starting to feel nasty.

We should remember that they are real people, with real feelings and they are clearly reading all that is being said and are obviously upset by it. Lets not make what looked like an unpleasant episode during labour become an extended unpleasant episode in their lifes when they should be enjoying their new baby.

I think it was more than his stress though. He seemed quite abusive, and having read about gaslighting on other MN threads, I was wondering if it was an example of this.