Last year I was obsessed with this programme. As a method of procrastination today I thought hmm, i’ll just watch one episode of the new season, to see if its the same hospital and doctors and stuff. I’m now on episode 5. I don’t know what it is that makes it such compelling viewing, its graphic, repetitive and quite franky terrifying. Most of the ‘women’ giving birth are our age! Yet almost every episode makes me cry. Just seeing the looks on a woman’s face when she holds her baby…I mean i’m thinking she must want to throw it out the window after what it just did to her…but they always just sob with happiness and its like all the pain and stress is forgotten.

I don’t want to have a baby anytime soon, but I know that I will one day, and I think its better to know and see these things than go in thinking it can’t be as bad as everyone says.

Hehe, in the episode I just watched a young, quite funny polish girl was having her baby. At one point during the labour, the (gorgeous!) male midwife asked her did she have any questions and she said “why me?”. The Midwife answered “Well only you can know that…seemed like fun nine months ago!”