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One Born Every Minute - 30.3.10 at 9pm - The last one

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FabIsGettingThere · 30/03/2010 17:31

Don't forget everyone

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carocaro · 30/03/2010 22:52

I just loved the bit with the two ladies, after discussing an epidural the midwife went away to let them talk, as soon as she opened the door, the mum to be just said 'yes'.

carocaro · 30/03/2010 22:53

No idea what people are objecting too?

Maybe the lady with the back to back baby, that was big? She had been awake for days and they were worried that she would not be able to cope with a longer labour and pushing and she was knacked?!

DS2 was 8 14, 3 weeks early, thank the Lord!
DS1 was 6 14, 5 weeks eartly, thank the Lord!

NonnoMum · 30/03/2010 23:03

For those of you who loved this, there are lots of other birthing programmes on some more obscure channels. (Discovery Home and Health, I think), including...

Home Birth Diaries
Portland Babies
A Baby Story (US)
Deliver Me (US)

They are repeated every now and then, but each episode will include at least one birth.

Hmm - think I've been sitting breastfeeding and watching telly for too long now...

Interesting to see the difference in care, especially US/UK care. US - huge room but no gas n air (or pethidine but loads of epidurals) -
UK - come on love, push that baby out - stand up if y'like, that's what I'm here for...

clarabell79 · 30/03/2010 23:27

so sad it's over! more C4! We want more!!! Be nice to see different birthing scenes - home births, birth centres...

ouryve · 30/03/2010 23:58

One Born Every Minute has been totally the antithesis of the cheeze that is A Baby Story (And of Portland Babies, for that matter). I did love Home Birth Diaries while I was expecting DS2, mind. I no longer get any of the channels that those shows are on, mind, since I refuse to pay a fortune to Sky every month just for a bigger selection of nothing to watch.

Indith · 31/03/2010 07:51

I may have to watch it all again on 4od, I'm going to miss it!

Dd was 9lb 4oz, lovely birth, I do remember my first though being "bloody hell it looks huge" as she was lifted out of the water, even before I looked at the sex!

sweetkitty · 31/03/2010 08:45

The best one is "Bringing Home Baby" which is set in the US and has usually first time parents well bringing home their PFB.

It is quite funny. 5 people to change one "diaper"

There was one couple recently who had gone all high tech and had cameras everywhere even in the front of the car to watch the baby in the back (even though the Mum was in the back), a gadget that told you why the baby was crying and these litle cone shaped things to stop the baby peeing on you during a nappy change. The Mum had to sout her own Mum to change the nappy.

I know we were all shell shocked with our PFBs but it is very funny.

NinthWave · 31/03/2010 09:36

I LOVED Home Birth Diaries. I was kindly lent a copy by the administrator of the homebirth UK Yahoo group when I was pregnant with my DS and planning a homebirth - some really lovely videos and stories.

I enjoyed OBEM too (and always cried at the end!)

gizmo · 31/03/2010 10:52

On the whole it's been a top series - mucho opportunity for snivelling in the Gizmo household but the birth nerd portion of me is a bit annoyed at the number of complicated births shown where they really don't explain properly what's going on.

For example there have been, proportionately, a huge number of births shown where monitoring picks up decels that then go to a pretty rapid c-section. And no-one attempts to put that into context or to explain possible reasons or other symptoms. My understanding has been that it's pretty unusual for babies to get that distressed without some other symptoms appearing (such as meconium or an unusually long painful labour) & that is why labouring mothers are not monitored as a routine thing...or have I got that wrong.

And while I'm here ShowofHands I'm so pleased to hear about your plans...I've been very moved by your story and I really wish you all the luck in the world in reaching some peace over your DD's birth.

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FabIsGettingThere · 31/03/2010 10:59

I was given the jab to expel the placenta against my wishes and against my midwives advice.

After watching it last night I asked DH to have his vasectomy reversed .

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DelsParadiseWife · 31/03/2010 11:07

I did NOT like the woman being held down for the injection. That is assult and worthy of complaint. Mine perhaps!

In practice, it is medically advisable to have the injection after such an interfered with birth as the woman might not now produce the right hormones to release the placenta, but the reality is it is still HER body and UP TO HER.

The MW knew she had a phobia of needles and should have prepared her in advance, perhaps discussing it along with the move to epidural, which from what I saw was also kind of pushed on her.

I am very angry about how that woman was treated. She was assulted!

Clarissimo · 31/03/2010 12:41

Sicky feeling not guaranteed with subsequents though- had it for ds1/2 and notat all with last two

Did think poor lass was handled badly. As for fears being silly wtc- labour is not a time to judge someone! I spent my last albour (all 35 minutes of it_ petrified the Doula or MW would open my cupboard and see it wasn't tidy. You'd have thought i' have been more worried about whwther MW2 would makle it (she didn't) LOL

Am going to miss this programme- and so is DH, he loves it and goes all gaga over the babies.

tanmu82 · 31/03/2010 13:12

I was offered the Synto jab with my first labour and was encouraged to do my 3rd stage naturally for my second. For my 3rd labour I will most definitely have the Synto injection!!! The contractions to 'birth' the placenta were so painful after an already quite long labour and the midwife had to help it along too. It meant I was in too much pain to spend those first moments enjoying DD.

ohmeohmy · 31/03/2010 13:30

I did like watching this but am left with a feeling of disappointment that the editors have chosen so many births that were on back in bed with interventions. we saw about 30 secs of a water birth. Maybe the people with chilled births didn't want the cameras but it would have been good to be left with a notion that birth can be beautiful, that fathers can do more than sit on the sidelines or fart about.

gemcgem · 31/03/2010 14:46

loved it ! best telly ! an yes i had a little cry , { hormones ) what will i have to watch now.

cheerfulvicky · 31/03/2010 14:59

Aaaah, can't believe this is finally over, I have loved watching this programme. I cried through most of the last episode And I have a bit of a schoolgirl crush on that childless head of midwifery, the one with glasses. Bless

Me and DS (19m) have watched every Wednesday morning on 4Od. Will really miss it. That bloody clip at the end of that knobbo tickling his wife with the blown up glove got me riled all over again, though! Git.

frankie3 · 31/03/2010 16:22

I guess the reason why this programme was so popular was because it showed the short of birth experience most women in this country have had - on back in bed, epidural etc.

If it was more in line with current thinking, with more water births, home births etc, most women would not have been able to identify with it and it would not have seemed so real.

cyteen · 31/03/2010 16:52

I disagree there frankie. What is so real about it is the universal moment when the baby arrives, however it arrives, and the parents get to meet their new family member.

Seemed to me that all the new mums had a moment where they wore they same look, staring at their baby with total incredulousness. I had it too when DS arrived; despite 14 hours of labour, there was a very distinct 'bloody hell, there's an actual baby' moment That seems pretty timeless and marvellous, really.

Longtalljosie · 31/03/2010 17:35

I think the reason we saw so many "on your back, epidural" births is that the ones in there for ages and ages, you got a much better picture of what they were all like as people. Unlike those who came in, jumped in the pool, gave birth pretty quickly. You wouldn't have had a chance to get to know them as well.

I gave birth on my back not because I was told to, but because after being awake for three days my legs were too wobbly to take my weight

poshtottie · 31/03/2010 17:41

I think it would have been more shocking if the women were told they couldn't have an epidural and that they should just grin and bear it. My mother was told this back in the fifties.

My friend was a midwife on this program and she does quite a few homebirths/waterbirths aswell.

Clarissimo · 31/03/2010 19:03

posh I couldn't have an epidural (two women with eclampsia in labour at same time, I was the one who got neither epi not cs due to staffing)- I think of all my births, hpospital, home, long and exceedingly rapid that was the one moment I felt cheated and opur of control.

cheerfulvicky- glad you didnt like him either. DH and I did take rather badly to him and much swearing was aimed his way. DH was an excellent birtthing partner who was even complemented for his help by the MW last time: had I been landded with that prat goodness only knows what I may have said or done under the ionfluence of intoicating substances

Clarissimo · 31/03/2010 19:03

(him being glove man)

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 31/03/2010 23:02

I have just watched this on Sky+. It was lovely to see that mum BFing her baby so soon after birth - I think it's the only time they have really showed proper skin-to-skin and BF.

Glove man was such a twat.