Buissness of Being Born Reaction:

This documentary had very large impact on me. Before watching this film I had not only been ignorant to the pitfalls of medicalized birth, but i was actually an ADVOCATE for interventions. Previous to viewing, i believed that giving birth was a dangerous, painful, and almost insane process to put your body through, and while giving birth is a life-changing event, i had been taught to view it as something bad, something to be dreaded if and when the time came. Now I can see that what i had been taught before was mostly false and illogical accusations against mid-wives and home-births.
From the movie I learned that in the United States we have the second highest infant/mortality rates among modern countries. This, I also learned, is probably due to interventions, such as the use of a labor-inducing medication called Pitocin that is commonly over-used. This drug causes stronger, more frequent contractions, creating possible risk to the infant and more pain to the mother, usually causing the need for an epidural. Not only that, but records show that home-births are just as safe, if not safer than hospital births. With all this evidence to back up the points the movie makes, I no longer see any reason, unless absolutely unnecessary, to have uncomfortable, over-priced hospital births to line the pockets of evil HMOs.