Netflix: Pregnant in america

Re: Netflix: Pregnant in america

• Valleybugt

  November 2011

  I have but I am sort of a docu junkie as well as a birth education junkie. 
  

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• MarSamWhitney member

  November 2011

  Im about half way through. Reminded me a little of The Business of Being Born. I will have to finish watching it. Very interesting.

  
  
  

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• honkytonk_kid member

  November 2011

  I saw it. Honestly, I thought it was awful. The guy is kind of a punk, looks like a frat boy, and talks like one too.

  It's a great idea, it really is. And the "situation" with the SIL that they happened to get on film was brilliant luck.

  But the rest of the film I just felt lacked any real substance. I rolled my eyes a little when the wife was all, "I want my birth to be magical, and special, and sparkly and light and blah blah blah..." I get it, they aren't really obligated to portray natural/intervention-free/homebirths in any manner other than their own experience or preference, and I too want/wanted my birth experience to be all those things, but combined with the film's general disorganization and lack of substance... I just felt like it did those of us who are pro-"alternative" (lol) birthing arrangements a disservice. Since it didn't really address very deeply the safety issues of either home or hospital birthing, and instead focused on the emotional aspects of birth, I felt like it fed into the unfortunate stereotype that natural-birthers (including those of us who WANTED a NB and ended up with a c/s and are hurt/disappointed) care more about the emotional aspect of birth at the expense of safety.

  I also felt it was excessively anti-OB and anti-hospital.
  

  
  
  
  

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