Why I hate TV births

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So Tina is in labor. When I saw that in the show description, I said to
Allyson "I bet you a nickel she has a C-section." And she's planned a home
birth (with OB permission, no less, which I don't know whether to be pleased
or aggravated about), and they have the birth tub and a midwife and
everything. I stood by my belief that a C-section was in the works. Her
water broke early in the evening (big gush of clear fluid), and contractions
(bend you over moaning painful contractions) started immediately.

Two scenes later, she's in the tub, and the midwife suggests Bette "reach
down there and see if you can feel anything." And she feels something, so
the midwife checks, and says "[The baby]'s right there." Which to me says
crowning.

Cut to the next scene: Tina is laboring on the bed (modestly covered from
neck to ankle by a sheet! Presumably not for TV purposes, since this show
features rampant gratuitous full frontal nudity), and rolls to her side,
exposing an icky patch on the bed. It's meconium, which the midwife says is
a sign the baby is in distress, and they need to transport to the hospital
immediately. They call an ambulance.

And she winds up with a C-section. Presumably not too much of an emergency
C-section, since she's got epidural anesthesia. And the baby cried almost
immediately (and no one freaked out, which to me says no risk of meconium
aspiration) and was in the room they'd been assigned, being passed around to
a million visitors, before Tina was even out of recovery.

Ack. Why do I even watch TV births. It's like banging my head against the
wall, but more aggravating.

Phoebe
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i was just watching some bewitched episdoes...no mention of breastfeeding?
i find that strange!

the mad about you birth wasnt too bad!

chris


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So Tina is in labor. When I saw that in the show description, I said to
Allyson "I bet you a nickel she has a C-section." And she's planned a
home birth (with OB permission, no less, which I don't know whether to be
pleased or aggravated about), and they have the birth tub and a midwife
and everything. I stood by my belief that a C-section was in the works.
Her water broke early in the evening (big gush of clear fluid), and
contractions (bend you over moaning painful contractions) started
immediately.

Two scenes later, she's in the tub, and the midwife suggests Bette "reach
down there and see if you can feel anything." And she feels something, so
the midwife checks, and says "[The baby]'s right there." Which to me says
crowning.

Cut to the next scene: Tina is laboring on the bed (modestly covered from
neck to ankle by a sheet! Presumably not for TV purposes, since this show
features rampant gratuitous full frontal nudity), and rolls to her side,
exposing an icky patch on the bed. It's meconium, which the midwife says
is a sign the baby is in distress, and they need to transport to the
hospital immediately. They call an ambulance.

And she winds up with a C-section. Presumably not too much of an
emergency C-section, since she's got epidural anesthesia. And the baby
cried almost immediately (and no one freaked out, which to me says no risk
of meconium aspiration) and was in the room they'd been assigned, being
passed around to a million visitors, before Tina was even out of recovery.

Ack. Why do I even watch TV births. It's like banging my head against
the wall, but more aggravating.

Phoebe
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Oh, then this is really going to fry your cookies...

NBC is apparently doing a medical show set in a fertility clinic this
fall, according to:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/nationa...lTV050516.html

Shall we make it a weekly date, this fall, to watch and pick apart each
episode? I mean, if they can't even get a fairly typical birth right,
how likely is it that they're going to get something as complex as
fertility treatment right?

The idea that they're exploiting that sort of pain, something that so
many couples have struggled to cope with, just sickens me. I want
Friends back, damnit!

Amy
EDD 8/17/05

in article , Amy at
wrote on 5/16/05 1:01 PM:


Oh, then this is really going to fry your cookies...

NBC is apparently doing a medical show set in a fertility clinic this
fall, according to:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/nationa...lTV050516.html

Shall we make it a weekly date, this fall, to watch and pick apart each
episode? I mean, if they can't even get a fairly typical birth right,
how likely is it that they're going to get something as complex as
fertility treatment right?

The idea that they're exploiting that sort of pain, something that so
many couples have struggled to cope with, just sickens me. I want
Friends back, damnit!

Amy
EDD 8/17/05


Amy,

I never stopped being your Friend. : )

Todd

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Two scenes later, she's in the tub, and the midwife suggests Bette "reach
down there and see if you can feel anything." And she feels something, so
the midwife checks, and says "[The baby]'s right there." Which to me says
crowning.

(snip)

And she winds up with a C-section. Presumably not too much of an
emergency C-section, since she's got epidural anesthesia. And the baby
cried almost immediately (and no one freaked out, which to me says no risk
of meconium aspiration) and was in the room they'd been assigned, being
passed around to a million visitors, before Tina was even out of recovery.

What show was this? That would be a pretty unusual scenario, for the baby
to be crowning and then to have a C-section.

Sarah

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What show was this? That would be a pretty unusual scenario, for the baby
to be crowning and then to have a C-section.

The L Word, on Showtime. That was my point exactly - the baby was
apparently crowning, then time passed and there was meconium on the
sheet under mom, then significantly more time passed and she had a
C-section. Which just doesn't happen, as I understand it.

An alternative explanation would be that the midwife suggested a
layperson perform an ungloved internal exam on a woman whose water had
broken while she was in the birth tub, then the midwife did her own
(gloved) internal because the layperson felt something. Which would
boggle me even more than the first scenario. But it would explain why
there was no pushing during any of the scenes.

Phoebe

Amy wrote:

Shall we make it a weekly date, this fall, to watch and pick apart each
episode? I mean, if they can't even get a fairly typical birth right,
how likely is it that they're going to get something as complex as
fertility treatment right?

LOL and ack! I can just see the horrible, horrible mistakes.

Phoebe

Ack. Why do I even watch TV births. It's like banging my head
against the
wall, but more aggravating.

TV grossly misrepresents everything it shows. It's the nature of the
beast. In this instance, they were obviously trying to drum up some
drama. Everything going well and delivering normally is not dramatic
enough for the TV mentality.