The Good, The Blood and The Fluffy [towels]

Our NCT class has encouraged us to think about ways the baby might be born, especially after we watched a DVD of a water birth.

Me: I'm coming to realise that the whole process of giving birth is not as clean as they show it in the movies.
W: In films, the woman's nearly always on her back for a start...
Me: There's doesn't seem to be much blood...
W: It's all over in minutes...
Me: And there's really no need for so many towels surely? Why do they always need to get more towels?
W: You've been watching too many westerns. Hot water to sterilise things and towels to... well... to mop up blood?
Me: The blood that they don't show.
W: Yeah! It could also be to wrap up the baby.
Me: Sounds sensible to me.
W: Or just to give the Dad something to do.
Me: You think I don't know where the towels are stored?
W: At home, yes. But where are they in the hospital?
Me: I haven't a clue. I'd have to go and find them..... aha!
W: You know where they're kept?
Me: Nope, but it's just a ploy isn't it? In the westerns, I mean.
W: You've got it.
Me: Well I'm staying with you. Seeing you through it. Doing all the breathing and everything.
W: Lovely.