"Business of Being Born" Film Response

The film "Business of Being Born," is a very revealing one. It lets viewers in on the differences between home births and hospital births. For me the film was to raise awareness about the problems with hospital births and where it all began. Going back to the bible where Eve bit the apple and that's why women suffer during birth. Because people believed this, feminists were against suffering during child birth which lead to upcoming techniques and technologies such as machines, vaccums, foreceps, epidurals, episiotomies, and of course, C-sections which many doctors turn to when faced any problem whether it is a serious one or not making the OB's life less complicated.

Then the uprising of the home births came back in the 70's when rebels and hippies were against everything that was going on in America at the time so they avoided hospital births and started getting midwives to give birth in their own home. A small percentage of people in America give birth at home whereas, in Europe and Japan it is normal for women to have midwives and their death rate for women and children is much lower than America's because of the way American doctors operate, because they are doctors, they are trained to find something wrong and fix it, so if there is something wrong even if it is supposed to go wrong during the process of birth, they consider it a problem and resort to c-section. I think this is an important film that Americans should watch so they understand the flaws behind those blue curtains and while halls. We've come up to believe that doctors and hospitals are safe places for us citizens but now the way I see it, they are being paid to get me fixed so they will do it in the most convenient way possible for them even if it is inconvenient for the patient. I have been convinced by this film that midwives care much more for the patient than doctors and I personally would trust them more.