Yorkshire Midwives on Call BBC2

[Gemini]

I love this programme.

It follows a team of community midwives based near Bradford who do home deliveries.

It follows the families through pregnancy and after, not just the birth. 3 in each episode

At lot less emphasis on all the screaming than in One Born Every Minute too

[Daisy]

It sounds lovely, Gem. The other 'baby' programme I liked years ago was Babes in the Wood. It was filmed at the birthing centre where my GD1 was born, in the middle of the Forest.

[Plantaholic]

I love it too Gemini, I have just watched an episode

[Oma]

Oh I haven’t seen that , I will have a look 😁

[Plantaholic]

Did any of you have a home birth? My DD was a home birth but not a water birth. The midwife sat with me all night.

[Daisy]

Plant - how lovely to have a home birth. I bet you and your midwife had some interesting chats between contractions.

Because I was an 'older mother' (just 29!) my first was in hospital - just as well as it was a forceps - and so was my second, because of the first!

[Gemini]

3 hospital births for me.
There are a lot of things I like about home births, but it was forbidden for first time mums in the 70's anyway. Plus I would not have wanted to give birth in my in-law's 8th floor flat .

I wanted an epidural anyway ( which I got with births 2 and 3 but not 1)

[Plantaholic]

My midwife was a spinster and quite old fashioned. I was supposed to have DS at home but had to be rushed, blue light to hospital but normal birth. The midwife was determined to deliver the next one.
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[Daisy]

Plant - you've reminded me that the midwife who visited me after I was home with DS2 was a proper dragon. She gave me a hard time over breast-feeding - bottle was best, she said! And was generally horrible. I was lucky that a very good friend in the village, also a midwife, had just had her second baby as well and she was wonderful -kind and helpful.

Gem - where we lived when DS2 was born didn't allow home births at all. It was a very rural area, with scattered small villages and hamlets, so I could understand it in a way. They had to cover a very wide area. I don't think epidurals were ever on offer.