Produced
by Ricki Lake, it compares various childbirth methods, including
midwives, natural births, epidurals, and Cesarean sections.
The
film criticizes the American health care system with its emphasis on
drugs and costly interventions and its view of childbirth as a medical
emergency rather than a natural occurrence.
The
film documents actual home births and water births. They follow a
midwife, Cara, in New York as she takes care of and attends several
births.
They then give the audience several shocking statistics about our current birthing techniques and challenges today’s doctors.
For
example, the United States has the second worst newborn death rate in
the developed world. Many experts are interviewed and they cite a
multitude of reasons for this dismal statistic such as the overuse of
medical procedures in the interest of saving time.
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