Babies change you in every possible way - and now I regular tune in and am frequently moved to tears. Yes, some of the coupleS annoy me and I have to wonder what sort of person allows this event to be broadcast on national TV, and the VT bits about how they met, etc, really irritate me, but on the whole I love the show. It is amazing to actually see someone give birth - as when you do it you don't actually get to see a lot. Stand-out moments for me have been....
- The young woman from this week whose partner had decided he didn't want anything to do with her and the baby, she was lovely and will make an amazing mum;
- The woman whose baby literally flew out!
- The 16 year old whose baby arrived 10 weeks early and how amazingly she coped with being in hospital for so long, and how sad it was that she didn't get to hold her baby until her 17th birthday.
- The birth which was just like mine - everything going ok then slows down to nothing and the forceps are whipped out - was pretty shocked to see just how hard the midwives were pulling the baby, and even more shocked when James said that I was dragged down the bed.
- The horrific scenes when one baby got stuck and they had to break its shoulder to get it out, and then watching its lifeless body as they tried (and thankfully succeeded) to bring it round. Truly the most harrowing thing I have ever seen.
Anyway I think OBEM is an amazing programme - compulsive viewing definitely, so I was quite looking forward to watching the special 'One Year On', particularly as the three couples on it all had babies who are now nine months old, the same age as Maya.
My goodness, it was really eye-opening and once again made me truly thankful for what a good baby Maya is. None of the couple had any form of routine in their lives - something we have had in place for the best part of six months now - feeding was a nightmare and they were all still getting up several times in the night. Now Maya doesn't always sleep through but she does usually - she goes to be between 7 and 7.30 and we don't usually hear a peep from her until 6am. Admittedly that's earlier than I would choose to get up but so much better than getting up during the night!
None of them took their babies anywhere or did anything with them. We have just had a few days away in North Norfolk - Maya was fantastic throughout. She slept well in the cot bed, ate all her meals well, allowed us to eat lunch out twice (although was a bit tired and grizzly through one following a knackering hour long swim - but that was our fault entirely) and absolutely loved being in her new rucksack. The whole time she was smiling and giggling and gibbering away like a monkey - completely different to the grizzly cry babies in on the show.
I feel at times that I am a crap mum who copes very badly with many aspects of motherhood (eg. the sickness bug that wiped Maya and I out last week and resulted in James having to take several days off work to look after Maya as I couldn't), but seeing these families made me feel so much better, the babies really seemed to be so much younger than Maya and much harder work. It made me realise that I am actually doing an alright job and Maya is developing into an amazing little person - so we must be doing something right!!!
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