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just a reminder ,reality bites tonight : from boom to maternity
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06-02-2012 2:59pm#1From Boom To Maternity
RTÉ Two, Monday 6 February 2012, 9.30pm
Writer Maia Dunphy is a child-free 35-year-old who recently married her partner of three years, the UK Comedian Johnny Vegas, and now all everyone wants to know is...."when's the baby due?"
But the Irish birth rate has been shooting up over the past 3 years. From 48,000 births in 1994 to a current 75,000 per year...and rising. The maternity services are straining to cope, and with falling incomes and exorbitant childcare costs many Irish mothers are choosing to stay at home while absent fathers work punishing hours to keep the bills paid.
Against the backdrop of the biggest baby boom in the history of the Irish state, Maia Dunphy looks at the realities of giving birth in Ireland in 2012 and asks...if everyone else is doing it, why can't I? The journey takes her from a fraught life swap with a 29-year-old full-time Boom Mum in Dublin's Donaghmede to the stark realisation that, in reproductive terms, 35 is not as young as she'd hoped.
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doubletrouble? wrote: »Writer Maia Dunphy is a child-free 35-year-old who recently married her partner of three years, the UK Comedian Johnny Vegas, and now all everyone wants to know is...."when's the baby due?"
Thanks for the reminder. The programme was well done, covering most of the topics facing potential parents in Ireland today.
Never knew of Maia before (Johnny has a wife!?) and liked her slightly sarky humor.0 -
Y.W.Thanks for the reminder. The programme was well done, covering most of the topics facing potential parents in Ireland today.
. the bits i saw in the ads were from the first 10 mins or so. it was good ,could've gone into more detail and maia could've spent a good day on her own with the twins. i thought a night was a bit short. but all in all it was great viewing. purple nearly peed herself laughing when maia was changing the nappies. on the down side i thought the baby shower thing was a bit o.t.t. as ordinary mrs. public wouldn't be able to afford the lavish lifestyle and that goes with it. 0 -
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