We have this wonderful, but a bit intimidating show on SVT, Swedish television, it's called Barnmorskorna, the Midwives. During eight episodes we get to follow the midwives on a big university hospital south of Stockholm. In every episode we are allowed into the privacy of two couples and is a part of the birth of their child.
My mother have always says that when I was born there was a lot of cords and machines, but in this series I've seen that nowadays they only use machines if it's something special about the delivery. In almost every delivery they use laughing gas, not spinal anaesthesia like thought, and I've used laughing gas on another occasion, and in my opinion it's a wonderful pain relief! When I used it I know I was in a lot of pain, but I don't remember the pain, or how serious it was...
I've always wanted to have children, not right now, but in the next four or five years or so, and this doesn't scare me at all, it is a bit intimidating, but the joy that the parents show afterwords is priceless, and almost every new mother seems to forget the pain when the get the baby.
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