Child Birth in America is not as safe as you would think – Business of Being Born sheds light on this issue
Finally someone is exposing the fact that Americans have a lot to learn from other countries when it comes to child birth. The USA has the 2nd highest infant mortality rate amongst the developing nations and yet we are suppose to be so medically advanced. I think the over medical advancement place a major part in what is wrong today in so many hospitals when child birth is concerned. Since I’m European (born and raised in Finland), I come from a different culture where child birth is looked at as natural as can be. Midwifes play a huge part and natural births are encouraged. Women bodies were made to deliver babies the natural way as long as you let nature do it’s work. Once you start disrupting the natural process with medication etc, things start to go wrong. I delivered both of my children here in the US without pain medication because I wanted to have a natural birth, and I was looked at like I was from Mars. I delivered both times at the hospital and the staff was amazed that I didn’t want any pain medication and kept offering it. They did the typical pitocin type of birthing to speed up the process to keep the assembly line going but I was still able to deliver without pain medication. I’m so glad I did! The only mistake I made was not to have a midwife present at the birth and letting them give me pitocin. If I would ever do it again, I would definitely have a midwife and I might also consider home birth so that I wouldn’t have to deal with the hospital bullying.
Ricki Lake has made this amazing documentary, exposing the whole problem of current birthing process in the US. I can’t wait to see the whole movie. All women should see this so that they can be more educated about what really goes on when you go to deliver a baby. Here is the website address to his document.
