One Born Every Minute

[adpiRN]

I'm watching this show right now on Lifetime. I like it! It's pretty realistic I think. My hospital is very similar in terms of high volume, high epidural rate.

What did everyone else think?

[NurseInTexas12]

The show was a great picture into L&D that it made me realize how much I miss it and start wondering if I should hunt down a L&D position again! I did feel for the nurse of the natural birthing couple... not because I don't support women who want to have natural births but because you could tell her hands were tied as she worried about the health of the baby. Oh well, happy family, healthy baby in the end... That's all that really matters I suppose!

[tntrn, ASN, RN]

I haven't seen this show, but probably lived it a time or two as an L & D nurse. There's just nothing like a patient who can't have her baby at home for whatever reason (or coming in after being complete for 6 hours) come in and proceed to tell you what they will or won't do.....nuthin' like it. If they don't really want help, why bother coming in at all?

[klone, MSN, RN]

I haven't seen this show, but probably lived it a time or two as an L & D nurse. There's just nothing like a patient who can't have her baby at home for whatever reason (or coming in after being complete for 6 hours) come in and proceed to tell you what they will or won't do.....nuthin' like it. If they don't really want help, why bother coming in at all?

It does seem like you haven't seen the show, because it wasn't like that at all. IMO, they weren't at all unreasonable, nor did they act like they were telling them what they will or won't do.

They were simply a couple who had done their homework, wanted to have a natural childbirth, and didn't want to be swayed by "this is how we always do it." Their baby was fine, there was no indication that there was any fetal distress, so I don't know why the nurse was being so adversarial about it.

Also, they came in, voluntarily, for an induction. They weren't someone who stayed at home for six hours at complete or wanted to have a homebirth but couldn't. They were simply a family who wanted to have a baby on their own terms within the confines of hospital P&P.