Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Business of Being Born
From Netflix, The Business of Being Born: this documentary on the birthing business and why the process should be changed here in the good old U s of A. Very strong arguments for natural childbirth, something the rest of the world (?) has seemingly gone about doing, getting away from the doctor centered birth and back to the mother/child centered birth. Well worth watching even if you are way past the child bearing/rearing age. Diane says if she had to do it over, she would do it the natural way; that was after watching the documentary - before, it was give me anything and everything to take away the pain. Caution: real pain suffered by women giving natural childbirth. And then the transformation at the birth, the 'reaching down and grasping your baby' - wow and wowzer! Several births are shown in the movie and the camera catches the sheer wonder and amazement of the mother's supreme moment. Absolutely full of awe.
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I really enjoyed the movie as well, most notably the point made that any woman who goes through childbirth (speaking of natural childbirth in this context) has proven to herself that she can make it through anything and lives the rest of her life empowered by the experience.
After watching the movie, I felt that I had been cheated, and remembered how my babies were taken from me immediately after they were born and that they weren't returned until the hospital decided they were ready to be fed, often the next day! How is a mom supposed to bond with her child, and what does that do to the poor baby? Yes, I missed the pain, but I would trade it now for the experience of the miracle, the joy, the wonder, the life-changing and earth-shaking moment of natural birth. Just think how empowered I would be after having four kids!! Women were so brainwashed in the 60s. Sad.
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