response to "business of being born"

In class we've been watching a documentary which was helped created by Ricki Lake. It explores the other side of delivering babies. As a 16 yr old, I know almost all there is to know about Natural Births. In "Business of Being Born", Midwifery is introduced to us on a newer level. The differences between the taken procedures between a OB/GYN and a Midwife. Watching both deliveries, I noticed instantly the differences between the two. There is much less pain in Midwifery I think, the women delivering their babies always seem so calm, at least when the baby is coming out. In hospitals women are always screaming they're heads off. A french doctor with much experience in his lifetime. He explained the difference a woman experiences when pushing a baby out laying on their back, and squatting down. Laying down is practically impossible for women to deliver as the position they are in affects they're appendix and makes them physically unable to push. This also takes a turn to a whole other argument, as they're limitations of pushing, lead to the new option of giving women Cesearean sections, or Episiotomy's, if taken to another level.

Drugs given to a mother in labor just creates no progress, as the drug given leads to the 2nd drug, which leads back to the 1st drug given, and so on. In the U.S., women are even taking elective c-sections or planning they're birth dates. Midwives attend only 8% of births here in the US. Modern US women aren't qualified to even contribute in they're own births, they just don't know how to birth. In the last 100 years, home-births have dropped by more than over 85%. In Europe and other countries today, over 70% of births are home-births.