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| An attempt to show a child being born live on TV will be "intrusive" for the expectant mothers and hospital staff involved, a medical body has warned. | An attempt to show a child being born live on TV will be "intrusive" for the expectant mothers and hospital staff involved, a medical body has warned. |
| The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said it feared Five's Birth Night Live may disrupt the "calm environment" the patient deserved. | |
| "Predicting the outcome of any labour is difficult," the organisation said, adding that safety was "paramount". | "Predicting the outcome of any labour is difficult," the organisation said, adding that safety was "paramount". |
| Five has described this Sunday's show as a "celebration" of childbirth. | Five has described this Sunday's show as a "celebration" of childbirth. |
| Several women will be monitored in the run-up to the programme in the hope that one of them will give birth during the two hours on-air. | |
| All hospitals make every effort to ensure that women have no external stress factors. This is not possible if a full film crew is present in the delivery room Richard Warren, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | |
| However, presenter Gabby Logan will have a range of other material to draw on, including interviews with celebrities about related experiences, for the live broadcast from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. | |
| Richard Warren, the honorary secretary of the college, said that a woman who is giving birth "should do so in a calm environment where she feels safe". | |
| "All hospitals make every effort to ensure that women have no external stress factors. | |
| "This is not possible if a full film crew is present in the delivery room recording every event as it unfolds," he said. | |
| The programme had the potential "for influencing the woman's experience and the outcome as well as being intrusive for the hospital staff", Mr Warren said. | |
| Gabby Logan is hosting Five's live coverage this Sunday eveningThe college, which advises the government on healthcare issues, aims to "improve and maintain proper standards" and produces guidelines "for appropriate practice and procedures" during childbirth. | |
| Sunday's broadcast is not the first of its kind. | |
| In 2001, five children were born live on US TV on an ABC programme called Super Baby Tuesday. | |
| But Five claimed it would be the first time it had been attempted in the UK. | |
| The show is to feature "the inevitable anxieties, the incredible dramas, the miracle of modern medical techniques, but above all the amazing joy a new birth brings", said Alex Sutherland, the head of live factual events at Five. |