Call the midwife vs OBEM

[Fuschia]

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/other_comments/1272492/midwifery_on_screen_how_one_born_every_minute_gets_it_wrong.html

[buggie]

Think she's overly harsh on OBEM - don't think the births have been overly medicalised... the woman who delivered the twins naturally and a couple of the pool births illustrate this and feel the mw's have been shown to be supportive while able to identify difficulties the Mum's are having and the options available to them.

Obv there's going to be a big difference in "backstory" and "angle", as one is a scripted drama with a story arc clearly planned out from the adaptation of the original book, while with OBEM the stories are formed more organically from the material that is recorded (without any direction or requests being given to the families/mw's involved).

Get the feeling that this MW's main problem was that OBEM dared to show hospital births but being able to do this programme in a different persons home each wk would have been impossible both logistically and financially.