Home Edition (Jennifer)

This episode of "Deliver Me" is called a Home Edition episode because it focuses on one story, Jennifer. She's a 34-year-old second-time mom who is a professional casting director that does not like being pregnant. "The physical strain on your body is overwhelming," Jennifer said. She also really struggles with being away from her job as it's very difficult to be pregnant and away in a business that is all about keeping your name out there. Dr. Bong was concerned with Jennifer's exercising habits (spinnergy). After a particularly hard workout the baby didn't kick for two days. "My body's not mine for nine months. I have to think of somebody else." Dr. Bong, "You can't be a hundred percent at your job and a hundred percent as a mom at the same time. It's not possible." "That's difficult...I feel very guilty," said Jennifer. "I hate being pregnant. I can't stand it." Dr. Bong says she appreciates the fact that Jennifer is honest with her about these things. She seems so excited to have the baby, but moreso for the fact of not being pregnant anymore than having the actual baby be born. I've noticed on a couple instances that when the doctors come in just for a quick check-in on the mother well before delivery they are often dressed just in street clothes, which always surprises me. For example, Dr. Bong comes in wearing flower earrings, a spaghetti strap tank top, capri jeans and flip-flops. Baby Faye is born! It was Dr. Bong's 11th anniversary and she had to cancel her dinner plans with her husband! She promised Jennifer she'd deliver her baby and she's a woman of her word. "That's the life of an OB/GYN!" she says. At a six-week post-partem appointment Dr. Bong asks Jennifer if she's happy to which she replies, "I'm happy she's out of me." She talks about the depression she's had since the birth, which Dr. Bong encourages so she can treat her. Jennifer talks about the moment relief of having her family completed immediately after the birth, "It's finally done!" The father in this episode is wonderful and Jennifer expresses her gratitude for him. "Motherhood is probably the most complex word in the English language because it is everything--it's cook, it's teacher, it's the mean principal with the ruler in their hand, but it's the most joy you can get out of your life, I think" says Jennifer at the end of the episode.