Absolutely brilliant, I love this programme, though it does conjure up those maternal feelings you never thought you'd have. Often humorous and very honest, this documentary puts 40 cameras into a maternity hospital and watches the marvel of new born life unfold. My friends about to drop so she watched it and recommended it, then I got hooked, started watching about 15 births a day. It really is incredible though, I don't know if I feel like that because I'm female and may go through the same process one day. I now feel that if I go through that I want my mum/everyone else's mum there just to know it won't kill me.
The camera often focusses on the mother and birthing partners while they are alone in the room, so the viewer not only gains a perspective of the physical space but the relationship between all the people. The minimal interviews often talk about how the couple met and personal anecdotes. It is strange that whatever age they are they usually want their mum. The programme also follows the staffs movements and their interaction with the women in labour. Difficult job.
I have to say that it is probably the fact that the event is such a universal and personal experience that this documentary seems to hit home.
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