Having watched two of Channel 4's programmes, "One Born Every Minute", it never ceases to amaze me that birth can still be seen as sensational viewing. The programme makers have missed a golden opportunity to portray birth in it's most natural form and to enable women to see that it is a normal, physiological process from which they don't need to be saved.
Most of the programme is spent watching women lying on their backs complaining of the pain that they are in. Every good childbirth educator and midwife knows, that this is the worst position for a woman to labour in, coupled with the fact that it's not so great for baby either.
"We're just going to pop this monitor on and see what baby's up to..." equates to..."I want you to lie on your back for at least 30 minutes, but probably longer as we are really busy in the unit today and I don't know for sure when I'm going to be back. If you lie still, it will give a clearer reading for me."
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