Watch Sunday night at 6.30 on 7 tonight!!!

[Floweryfields]

Just saw the advert - seems they are having something related to birth choices - the woman said something about 'it's a choice women have been making since the dawn of time, now they're taking that choice away' and showed a bub being delivered by csection.

Looks interesting......

[Eenee]

yeah just seen the add, it has intrigued me to- but I forgot what show they said- so thanks for that!

[Ahurani]

They are doing the homebirth debatey thing I think

[JellyBean]

Mmmm, I wouldn't expect much from channel 7's 'debate' show. Hopefully the views of the audience will be displayed fairly - unlike the vaccine debate that was aired a few months back - where the uneducated host started verbally abusing audience members!!
Still, it should be worth a look...

[Ahurani]

The ad looks very pro hospital birth

[JellyBean]

The ad looks very pro hospital birth

My thoughts exactly. And no doubt they will selectedly-edit it so that Obs get the final word, true statistics are shielded from the public and homebirthing women are made to look like tree-huggin, risk-taking, hippies.

[sneakysparkle]

hate it when obs talk cr@p

the birth part was lovely!

[Floweryfields]

Come now ladies, watch the show first before making judgement.

[littlelara]

I'm actually surprised; they don't seem to be anti - at this stage, at least

[AliBaby]

I didnt see the whole thing but I did lie that they had Rikki Lake on it advocating home birth.

[Floweryfields]

Hmm, well, I think all in all it was quite pro home birth. Even the doctor they were intereviewing at the end said that the majority of home births end with a healthy baby (but the ones that don't, are bad - well that can be said of hospital birth too).

I think the woman in America who's baby died was interesting, because it was put accross that it was due to the fact that the mid wife was too scared of prosecution - therefore showing that's what making it illegal does.

[harleysgirl]

yep def more on the home birth side! i thought it was a great show on it didnt make me angry about them telling too much crap lol

was amazed to watch to 2 different births though and see the differece in the babies actions after being born........... made me cry watching the home birth

[Snacks]

I thought it was totally skewed towards homebirth! (Hence I was quite pleased with the story overall, LOL!) Did you notice the difference in music and atmosphere between the hospital and homebirths in the story? In the hospital birth you didn't really 'get to know' the mother - she was pretty much just part of the scenery. And the whole waving the baby's hand and saying, hello... OMG, I thought I was going to puke. Way to spoil what could have been the most beautiful moment of those parents' lives. Just proved to me how much of a prat that OB is.
Whereas the homebirth was lovely, peaceful, all about the mother - the MW hardly featured at all. Had to laugh at the poo floating in the birth pool though
I thought about visiting the website but I think there'd be too many people on there screeching about how irresponsible it is to show homebirth favourably... blah, blah, blah...

[Fuzzywuzzy]

[QUOTE=Snacks;1968991] And the whole waving the baby's hand and saying, hello... OMG, I thought I was going to puke. Way to spoil what could have been the most beautiful moment of those parents' lives. Just proved to me how much of a prat that OB is.QUOTE]

Honestly, that was the only thing in the whole story that really invoked emotion in me. I wanted to punch him through the tv. Why would you do that?

[*TripleJ*]

did anyone notice the difference in the two babies how they were when they were born?

[Melody7]

Congratulations to my friend Anna - who was the homebirth Mum in that segment. I thought she was amazing!
I've been talking with her (and interviewed/filmed myself) for that segment - and it's amazing how much has got chopped off - interviews with other birth professionals (eg midwives etc) that could refute Dr Pesce's stats. A bit sad

[julie_ann_jules]

I'm so bummed I missed it I tried to watch it online but it appears that its not important enough to have online!!! Now if I want to watch any of the 6 videos on the girl that was kidnapped at 11 then I can watch that.... don't get me wrong poor girl but maybe 5 vids on her would be enough so I could see the 1 segment that I'm interested in. grrrrrr

[annsam]

Had to laugh at the poo floating in the birth pool though

It wasn't poo - it was baby gunk. And I should know cause it was my birth


Heres the link - its the little box 3 in http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/