one born every minute

i never really finished a single thought in my previous post about this show. so here's something maybe a little more coherent.

One Born Every Minute takes place in the labor & delivery department at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio! you with me here? not only was my baby sister born in that hospital when i was almost 11, but i spent my first 18 years seeing that hospital from the highway at least a few times a week back & forth to temple/hebrew school/sunday school/psychiatrist... in recent years my father's cancer was cured (in part) at that hospital, so i felt very connected to this show from the first of it i heard. oh, that, and i'm knocked up, so i figured i should watch a show about women going through labor & delivery.

48 cameras (i could be making up that number) have been embedded in the labor & delivery unit at this hospital, and they film 24/7. each hour-long episode follows 3 or 4 birth stories from check-in to check-out--labor & delivery. as you'll see from the previous post (when i got distracted from my whole point by a teen mother), they've covered everything from surrogate mother giving birth (to twins) and giving them away to the new parents; to a lesbian couple, one is carrying twins, but they're not from the same donor & one donor is white and one donor is black and they have one black baby and one white baby; to a couple of sportscasters just having a baby, but driving each other nutso; to a lady with the most HILARIOUS breathing sounds--i almost had to mute the tele--she took herself SO seriously, and the nurses were bustin' on her.

it's a great show. that being said, i feel like this has been my education. columbus, ohioans giving birth--what better preparation for labor & delivery could i ask for? and it's free! i'm ready to go.

oh! and the show is narrated by jamie lee curtis! LOVE!