The Business of Being Born
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Ricki Lake, Dr. Michel Odent, Abby Epstein, Cara Muhlhahn, Dr. Marsden Wagner
Directed By: Abby Epstein
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Brand: LAKE,RICKI
The Business of Being Born Description
DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: LAKE,RICKI
EAN: 0794043120787
Format: Color
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
DVD Region Code: 1
Product Release Date: 2008-05-06
Running Time: 84
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: LAKE,RICKI
EAN: 0794043120787
Format: Color
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
DVD Region Code: 1
Product Release Date: 2008-05-06
Running Time: 84
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review of The Business of Being Born
Genre: Documentary
Rating: UN
Release Date: 6-MAY-2008
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews of The Business of Being Born
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Opened my eyes.
Review: I am not a mother yet, although I have 3 furry cat babies, but I know that doesn't count. I have been trying to get pregnant for months now, and in that time I have been researching different methods of birth. I was in the hospital room when my older sister had my niece and I saw what a beautiful miracle it all was, but I was chagrined about the hospital staff and their methods. My sister was almost fully dilated when we got there, her labor going smoothly no drugs at all, and as soon as she was in the door they wanted to start her on Pitocen, I felt their need to get it all over and done with and my sister also felt that pressure and gave in, my niece was born within the hour.
The Business of Being Born touches on that subject, of women being given drugs to hurry up the process because the staff wants the mother to give birth, so they can either move on to the next or go home. I understand that, it IS a business after all, hospitals have to make money also and a natural childbirth isn't going to bring in the cash, or free up a bed. The Documentary also touches on how the surgical community, hospitals, doctors took childbirth out of the midwives hands and put pregnant women flat on their backs, drugged up and put through things they shouldn't have to be put through. Its illogical how women are treated, it's sad how its now out of their hands, and its scary that most people aren't informed of the choices they have.
Natural childbirth to your average American woman is pictured as painful and just for the Granola Hippie types. They don't see it as taking back their bodies, and minds, and truthfully allowing birth to be what nature intended. Do women actually think that they will die of pain if they don't have the drugs? Do women forget that our bodies are amazing? We have hormones, and chemicals and our physiology is crafted especially for giving birth! We aren't meant to be lying on our backs, with needles in our arms and some doctor telling us that "its time" and than pumping us with drugs that we know NOTHING about their long term effects, and causing our babies undue stress in the womb. Babies will come out when they are ready, not when Dr. "Late to golf" wants them too.
This film is wonderful, informative, I cried, I sobbed, I turned to my husband and said "that's an eye opener!" Thank you Rickie for having the courage to show what you went through, and what childbirth can really be like as nature intended!
Watch this, you wont regret it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A must see for every mother and father-to-be!
Review: Please see this film! It will help you to make educated choices concerning (1) who will provide your prenatal care and (2) who will deliver your baby.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Midwifery Appears to be the Way to Go.....
Review: "The Business of Being Born" is a well done documentary that points out many eye opening facts about how the business of giving birth in the United States has gone awry. The information provided makes a lot of sense and has changed my views on the way giving birth should be performed. Using a midwife and home birth seem to be more beneficial to both the mother and her baby. "The Business of Being Born" gives many reasons why its beneficial for both mother and baby to have a midwife assist during labor. The medical establishment treats child birth like an unnatural medical condition and uses many unnecessary medical interventions to help speed along the birthing process. From watching this documentary, these medical interventions appear to have adverse consequences to both mother and child.
Some of the information shared in this documentary showed that 70% of the births in Europe and Japan are performed by midwives. Conversely, in the United States, approximately 1% of all births are performed by midwives. The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rate of all industrialized nations.
Giving birth is big business in the United States.... Doctors want you in and out of the hospital as quickly as possible to make room for the next woman to give birth. Doctors are performing more c-sections today than ever before. In the early 1970s around 4% of women had c-sections. Today something like 1 in 3 women are having c-sections in the United States. Having a c-section is major surgery with its own set of risks and complications. Many of the c-sections performed are unnecessary and some doctors perform/push c-sections in order to prevent malpractice lawsuits according what I saw in this documentary.
Midwives are very educated, highly trained specialists, whom have the interests of both the mother and baby at heart. They work with the mother's body and allow it to take the needed time to delivery the baby. It appears from watching this documentary that the women that used midwives had a better overall experience giving birth then that of those that used the obstetrics/hospital route. This is a highly enlightening documentary.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent DVD
Review: To know what is WRONG with birth in America, all you need to do is watch this documentary.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO SEE THIS
Review: I've been present at four hospital births and the experience left me convinced to have a home birth for myself and child. This doc presents World Health Org. wisdom and in-the-trenches experience. Watch it with your heart and mind wide open and you can't help see that North America is on its way to a crisis in terms of our relationship to the most natural experience in the world.
Way to go Ricki and Abby. Noble work. Essential work. Life-enriching work.
Review Summary: Opened my eyes.
Review: I am not a mother yet, although I have 3 furry cat babies, but I know that doesn't count. I have been trying to get pregnant for months now, and in that time I have been researching different methods of birth. I was in the hospital room when my older sister had my niece and I saw what a beautiful miracle it all was, but I was chagrined about the hospital staff and their methods. My sister was almost fully dilated when we got there, her labor going smoothly no drugs at all, and as soon as she was in the door they wanted to start her on Pitocen, I felt their need to get it all over and done with and my sister also felt that pressure and gave in, my niece was born within the hour.
The Business of Being Born touches on that subject, of women being given drugs to hurry up the process because the staff wants the mother to give birth, so they can either move on to the next or go home. I understand that, it IS a business after all, hospitals have to make money also and a natural childbirth isn't going to bring in the cash, or free up a bed. The Documentary also touches on how the surgical community, hospitals, doctors took childbirth out of the midwives hands and put pregnant women flat on their backs, drugged up and put through things they shouldn't have to be put through. Its illogical how women are treated, it's sad how its now out of their hands, and its scary that most people aren't informed of the choices they have.
Natural childbirth to your average American woman is pictured as painful and just for the Granola Hippie types. They don't see it as taking back their bodies, and minds, and truthfully allowing birth to be what nature intended. Do women actually think that they will die of pain if they don't have the drugs? Do women forget that our bodies are amazing? We have hormones, and chemicals and our physiology is crafted especially for giving birth! We aren't meant to be lying on our backs, with needles in our arms and some doctor telling us that "its time" and than pumping us with drugs that we know NOTHING about their long term effects, and causing our babies undue stress in the womb. Babies will come out when they are ready, not when Dr. "Late to golf" wants them too.
This film is wonderful, informative, I cried, I sobbed, I turned to my husband and said "that's an eye opener!" Thank you Rickie for having the courage to show what you went through, and what childbirth can really be like as nature intended!
Watch this, you wont regret it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A must see for every mother and father-to-be!
Review: Please see this film! It will help you to make educated choices concerning (1) who will provide your prenatal care and (2) who will deliver your baby.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Midwifery Appears to be the Way to Go.....
Review: "The Business of Being Born" is a well done documentary that points out many eye opening facts about how the business of giving birth in the United States has gone awry. The information provided makes a lot of sense and has changed my views on the way giving birth should be performed. Using a midwife and home birth seem to be more beneficial to both the mother and her baby. "The Business of Being Born" gives many reasons why its beneficial for both mother and baby to have a midwife assist during labor. The medical establishment treats child birth like an unnatural medical condition and uses many unnecessary medical interventions to help speed along the birthing process. From watching this documentary, these medical interventions appear to have adverse consequences to both mother and child.
Some of the information shared in this documentary showed that 70% of the births in Europe and Japan are performed by midwives. Conversely, in the United States, approximately 1% of all births are performed by midwives. The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rate of all industrialized nations.
Giving birth is big business in the United States.... Doctors want you in and out of the hospital as quickly as possible to make room for the next woman to give birth. Doctors are performing more c-sections today than ever before. In the early 1970s around 4% of women had c-sections. Today something like 1 in 3 women are having c-sections in the United States. Having a c-section is major surgery with its own set of risks and complications. Many of the c-sections performed are unnecessary and some doctors perform/push c-sections in order to prevent malpractice lawsuits according what I saw in this documentary.
Midwives are very educated, highly trained specialists, whom have the interests of both the mother and baby at heart. They work with the mother's body and allow it to take the needed time to delivery the baby. It appears from watching this documentary that the women that used midwives had a better overall experience giving birth then that of those that used the obstetrics/hospital route. This is a highly enlightening documentary.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent DVD
Review: To know what is WRONG with birth in America, all you need to do is watch this documentary.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO SEE THIS
Review: I've been present at four hospital births and the experience left me convinced to have a home birth for myself and child. This doc presents World Health Org. wisdom and in-the-trenches experience. Watch it with your heart and mind wide open and you can't help see that North America is on its way to a crisis in terms of our relationship to the most natural experience in the world.
Way to go Ricki and Abby. Noble work. Essential work. Life-enriching work.