Filming births: Why would you want to?

This week online forums fired up with talk about whether or not you should be allowed to film births, after a report it had been banned. I’d like to know why you’d want to in the first place.

I know it’s all about documenting the miracle of birth and so on, but why would you even think about taking a video camera into a delivery room?

Maybe there’s some confusion with the operating “theatre” concept.

I’m sure your wife/girlfriend/partner/sister/mother (no, that’s too weird) would love a camera in her face and elsewhere while she’s enduring the most excruciatingly painful experiences you can
imagine – even if she’s totally drugged up to the eyeballs.

One would think the person wielding the camera could actually be more use and support at the other, er, non-business end.

You can’t blame the medical staff for having issues with privacy – they’re at work. I wouldn’t want a camera on me when I’m working – and my work isn’t highly specialised, involving life and death.

There’s also the annoyance/danger of having a work experience Tarantino getting in their way: “Sorry, had to change the battery, can you put Trevor back in? Ta. Cue the screaming… Action”.

A Melbourne mum had issues with the ban, saying she had a caesarean and “couldn’t see anything that was going on, so I wanted a video”. Really? You want to see it? In all its wide screen, high def, gory glory? Really? Why not shoot it in 3D while you’re at it?

Apart from that, who are you going to show the video to? Whack it in the DVD player when there’s nothing on telly that night? You could also upload it to UterusTube.

There are endless options – you could cut it together like one of those before-and-after wedding videos for friends and family, “Now that’s us conceiving Trevor… yep, that was the moment…then…“Look my uterus is fully dilated! (Waaaaaaah!) Geez Nathan, I told you to get a closeup there…”

Count me out of that slide night.

Fast forward to Trevor’s 21st – a night to remember – “Can we have a bit of shush up the back, got a little video to show you all…”

©Steve Williams 2012

*I used the keyword “birth” in a search on a free stock photo site. This was the result: Obviously.

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Code to Joy

It’s another language. I have absolutely no idea what these people are on about. It may as well be Latin or Juaneño (an extinct Uzo-Aztecan language apparently) or god forbid Singlish.

Trying to put this website / blog / thing together should have been a fairly painless experience. Not so much. Even using WordPress which is allegedly “Setting up a Site for Turnip-like Vegetables” proved to be an interesting way to spend a weekend.

That whole “code” palaver makes your head hurt. I can see why our English and German friends in the 40’s needed machines to come up with it and then proceeded to blow each other up.

I give you:

// Remove the task from the UI $(“#task_<%= @task.id %>”).slideUp(“slow”, function() { // Reload the tasks $(“#tasks”).html(“<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => ‘tasks/tasks’))%>”);

Yeah, good. I’d remove the task from the UI if I knew what my task is and what the hell a UI is.

Do I need tongs? An oven mitt?

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That reminds me of the dreaded high school maths classes, when I used to go into a “zero to the zero power” trance with a bit of drool escaping from the left side of my mouth.
Thanks for all that vectors, surds, calculus, algebra and trigonometry pleasure, you wacky funsters. You don’t know how often I need to calculate the fourth square root of something and I love having a robust chat about the angles of cyclic quadrilaterals over a nice Merlot.
So hats and pants off to internet code devotees and maths teachers. (But maybe enough of the short sleeve shirts with pens in your top pocket).

©Steve Williams 2012

*I used the keyword “code” in a search on a free stock photo site. This was the result: Obviously.

Eirik Newth