Response to "The Business of Being Born"

in class we watched a documentary called " the business of being born" and it was about the American way of births and how its corrupted. the movie was mostly about how a camera was following midwifes around during pregnancies. its about how having a midwife and a home pregnancy is WAY better then in the hospital. many people think it is safer to have your child in the hospital because if anything happens, your in close area to many doctors. but the truth is that the only reason why problems happen is because of the drugs that the doctors give you. when you are having a birth at home, you aren't taking any drugs that would cause you to have an emergency c-section. Americans think that it is a bad idea to have a midwife and home birth because they think that it is dangerous and that they would do anything for a FAST unpainful delivery. in japan and Europe midwifes attend over 70% of the births , while here in America , only 8% ! that just shows that the Americans aren't educated on the topic. i bet that if all pregnant woman watched this documentary they would change their mind , and get midwifes.

In my opinion i agree with the movie because i believe that it is healthier to give a birth with a midwife at your house. not only is it safer and has less risks, but it also provides that "special connection" with your child at first site. in the movie i learned that when the baby first comes out of the woman [in a hospital] and then the doctors show the mother the baby and then runs off with it, its not right because the mother is supposed to spend time with their child to get the special connection started, so that the mother can be attached to her child. with home births, the mother is able to hold her child for an hour , connecting with him or her , and creating that special attachment that creates a different kind of love for your child rather then when it gets run off to a completely different room.

another interesting fact that caught my eye during the movie, where these facts: in 1900 95% of the births were at home, in 1938 50% of births were at home, in 1955 1% of births are at home and it remains the same. At first back in the day mostly all births where taken place at home because that was the "norm" but then people starting thinking that midwifes were dirty and unsanitary and compared them to the "white pretty" hospitals. Which when you think about it, the hospitals have hundreds of sick people walking around with billions of germs , while your house only has YOUR germs [which are clean] and only the people you love around you. because the mothers where getting the wrong image, the percentage of births at home where decreasing rapidly!