A friend of a friend interviewed me for this segment on NPR about Ricki Lake's film The Business of Being Born. I don't think my skepticism came across, because my little quotes got cherry picked. But the piece was even handed anyway.
You can listen here.
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I can't listen to it until I get home but that's really cool!
And is that a recent picture of Ricky Lake? 'Cuz if it is, she's holding up pretty damn well (much to JPX's dismay I suspect.)
couldn't get it to work, but congrats julie!
Argh! It won't play for me either...I'm sure you were excellent though!
Try this one, guys. I'm going to check it out after the Sox game, Julie.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90318077
Awesome! Thanks landshark, that link worked.
I think you sounded very fair-minded Julie - it is a monumental decision. My kids were both born in the hospital, with a Certified Nurse Midwife. When I was pregnant with Jake my parents were freaking about the Midwife thing because they assumed that CNM equaled birth at home, which is not true.
As I have said in the past - I have HUGE respect for women who have "natural" childbirth (no drugs)but that was not for me.
The idea of home birth kind of freaks me out because I worry about the possibilites of complications. I mean, what if something happened to your baby because of your decision not to be in a hospital?
No matter how the baby gets here, it's one of the most unbelievable experiences of your life - why not make it the safest too?
Well, that was a long post -sorry everyone!
I'm very pro doctor and very anti this movie. My quotes got cherry picked. Ah well. I was mostly pointing out all the logical flaws in the film. But then I conceded that the home birth had its appeal. I guess the author needed someone saying that stuff, so it turned out to be me!
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