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your total cost = less than 10 bucks.
trust me, if you are going to be giving birth soon, it'll be the best $10 purchase you've ever made.
this film is powerful, in that it clearly shows that the motivation of most u.s. medical birth interventions is simple expediency, because of some truly insane traditions, a "perceived" cost savings, and pretty much for the convenience of hospitals and medical staff; not at all for the benefit of the mother or child. but yet the film also makes the effort to show in a remarkably balanced way a case of necessary intervention.
about women planning natural births but in the end getting all the drugs, this film shows how in a hospital birth a 'perfect storm' of very powerful factors conspire together to make it nearly impossible for a woman to follow through on those intentions, and it is by design. the jaw-dropping images of the film speak for themselves. the filmmakers give many many examples of this and show how one, administering pitocin (for artificially inducing contractions) causes a cascade of serious complications: vastly increased birthing pain for the mother, greater fetal distress and trauma; and then of course hugely increasing the chance that the woman will be sliced open with a C-section.
but then, in the film, you also get to see in living color the unforgettable videos of 5 or 6 babies being born including the labor of their mothers. and you get to see some born by C-section. overall, it was an intense and beautiful documentary.
knowledge is power.
Where would you want to swim ?
your total cost = less than 10 bucks.
trust me, if you are going to be giving birth soon, it'll be the best $10 purchase you've ever made.
this film is powerful, in that it clearly shows that the motivation of most u.s. medical birth interventions is simple expediency, because of some truly insane traditions, a "perceived" cost savings, and pretty much for the convenience of hospitals and medical staff; not at all for the benefit of the mother or child. but yet the film also makes the effort to show in a remarkably balanced way a case of necessary intervention.
about women planning natural births but in the end getting all the drugs, this film shows how in a hospital birth a 'perfect storm' of very powerful factors conspire together to make it nearly impossible for a woman to follow through on those intentions, and it is by design. the jaw-dropping images of the film speak for themselves. the filmmakers give many many examples of this and show how one, administering pitocin (for artificially inducing contractions) causes a cascade of serious complications: vastly increased birthing pain for the mother, greater fetal distress and trauma; and then of course hugely increasing the chance that the woman will be sliced open with a C-section.
but then, in the film, you also get to see in living color the unforgettable videos of 5 or 6 babies being born including the labor of their mothers. and you get to see some born by C-section. overall, it was an intense and beautiful documentary.
knowledge is power.
Where would you want to swim ?