What happens during birth?
What goes on inside a birthing suite? How risky is it to give birth? How often do the birth horror stories you see on TV really happen?
These are all question we have been asking this week, following research from the United States that found that TV and movies have become a big part of how we educate ourselves about pregnancy. But how accurate a picture does the screen paint?
We spoke to Felicity Copeland, a midwife from the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Health, to get a dose of reality.