Anyone watched The Business of Being Born?

M+B=<3

If so, what are your thoughts?  Just saw it today and thought it was very interesting and thought provoking. 

Hip2Bsquare

I loved the movie...I was planning to go natural anyway and had been seeing a midwife at a birthing center BEFORE I even saw the movie....It just stressed to me how natural birth is and that women are made to give birth and that the pain is temporary and with purpose.

hoshicat

I saw it and it made me want to try going natural... plus reading people's birthing stories about the epi not always working, or only partially taking effect makes me want to build up to the pain rather than knock it out for a while and then get hit with a wall of it if the epi doesn't work. That makes sense right?

rohansmom

It was a little biased but I liked it.

s&jsmom

That movie along with books from Ina May changed the way I think about birth. We are planning a home birth this time, any day now...

Worcbride

I thought they did a good job w/it.  It didnt persuade me one way or the other and I ended up w/an unplanned csect w/DD.  I didnt feel I missed out on anything by having her that way and will have a repeat one w/DS.  Until the advent of meds, all women had their kids "naturally" so its not something new

MTS13

I agree with many of the pp's. As with all documentaries, it's pretty one-sided, and I question some of their statistics. But on the other hand, I am glad that I saw it because it empowered me to have natural birth be my goal. I love how they portrayed the process as this beautiful right of passage into motherhood. 

lesalia217

yes, I did watch it.  I knew ahead of time that it was biased, but with all bias, they get some facts in with it.  I do believe that the hospital near me would be a pressuring as some of the ones they found to feature, but what the movie did more for me, is show me a wonderful experience and give me the belief that i could do it.  I did change my mind and decide to go with a natural birth.  I am very excited for the experience, so much that I did switch to a midwife in a birth center. 

Meli0604

I really enjoyed it. I understand not ALL hospitals and doctors are like that, but it's best to be prepared ahead of time. I was actually watching A Baby Story on TLC and the woman's doctor kept trying to convince her to start pitocin. The doctor seemed to get very annoyed when she refused. Ultimately she continued with her birth plan and the baby was born without any complications or interventions. If I hadn't watched The Business of Being Born, I probably would have looked at that woman and thought "is she crazy? do what the doctor says!"

After watching the documentary and reading Ina May's books, I am much more confident about my choice to deliver without pain meds or interventions. It was so refreshing to see women deliver their babies without meds and yet they weren't screaming at the top of their lungs in pain.