Baby Business

Esther added “The Business of Being Born“ to our Netflix queue. It is the only reason we resumed our Netflix queue, because the main distributor of the movie is in fact Netflix.

The movie was an interesting documentary about the loss or minimization of natural child birth. With Ricki Lake as executive producer and star, it does not glamorize birth without medication, instead the film brings to light the statistics of medical interventions during childbirth in the U.S. as compared to the rest of the world.

The numbers were incredible, and considering the infant and mother mortality rates that the U.S. has compared to European countries, even when babies are delivered under the auspices of a doctor as opposed to a midwife.The disappearance of the midwife, the documentary leads one to believe, is the point at which medicine became commercial and worried about the bottom line as opposed to mother and baby’s health.

The movie has brought some salient issues with our doctor to the surface, Esther is probably researching new practices as I write this, and provides a lot of food for thought. If you aren’t too grossed out by the birthing process, which I would have thought I was until recently, I would highly recommend seeing this movie.

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