The Business of Being Born has brought more attention to the film's star and co-producer Ricki Lake than she may have ever imagined. The former talk-show host made it her mission to birth her second baby naturally and document the experience to release to the public. She and co-producer, Abby Epstein revealed facts about epidurals, C-sections, and inductions.
As an encore, the bubbly girl from New York is back with another documentary due out this Fall. Based on their book, the new movie is called My Best Birth. It focuses on the American maternity-care system and has famous moms like Laila Ali, Melissa Joan Hart, Kristy Turlington, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley giving snippets of their own experiences. Cindy Crawford kicks off the series of four webisodes tomorrow. The videos will air each week for the next month, detailing how the women chose their midwifes, did prenatal yoga, and the lessons they learned. Watch the trailer and tell us if you'll be tuning in.
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The book was really amazing, I would watch this
1self-righteous twerps. how about the realities of when you can't have a natural birth, you've read/seen all the hype, and then get depressed because you 'failed'. nice, washed-up celebrities, real nice.
great to hear about the facts about these procedures, but i hope that they made it known that sometimes you don't have a choice and that is perfectly fine. i'm so sick of the holier-than-thou attitude that some feel that parenthood grants them, not to mention the sudden expertise in all things medical. cough jenny mccarthy cough
2anonymous, no one is self righteous in these movies and if you bothered to read the books ..its about your best birth, whether its natural or not, that you are informed of your choices and are empowered.
3I take issue with these films because these stars have access to care and options that most people do not. Let's take homebirth as an example. While I absolutely support a woman's choice to labor and give birth at home (and think it's an ideal choice in an uncomplicated situation), most women don't have access to the money to pay a midwife or doctor out of pocket to come to their homes. Additionally, in some situations where you have insurance you may be required to reimburse your insurance company for the money they paid out for traditional prenatal care if you decide to have a homebirth. So financially, homebirth is not an option for many women.
If you look at other options, from birthing centers on one end all the way to elective ceasarian sections on the other end of the spectrum, these celebrities (as washed up as they are) have access to resources that most of us can only dream of.
Cat, I absolutely agree with you that it is important to be important and empowered, even when you have few options to work with.
4Anonymous, are you aware that the woman behind the camera for the Business of Being Born got pregnant during filming and became a subject of the film? Through the filming she and her partner decided to do a home birth. They selected the midwife and began the process. Things did not go like they planned and she had to go to the hospital for a c-section. She addresses her feelings about not being to have a home birth in the film. This includes her disappointment.
I think part of the publicity about these births is that they are not easily available to most of us in the U. S. and the healthcare industry is trying to keep it that way.
5Yeah, I think I'll tune in to watch more of this. I'm interested to see the pre-natal yoga stuff.
6"most women don't have access to the money to pay a midwife or doctor out of pocket to come to their homes"
Everyone has the option of homebirth, whether by freebirthing (without a midwife, and its perfectly safe i have attended many) or with a midwife, if it is planned correctly and saved for.
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