I watched this documentary for the first time a couple years ago and I must say that it really opened my eyes to the current standards and methods of today's births in hospitals.Woman have been taught that they cannot birth safely without intervention here in North America.Prenatal care is important and midwives are indeed trained and educated professionally to monitor a pregnancy as well as oversee home births.They carry all of the medical equipment needed in case of complications with mom and bleeding and they carry pitocin in cases of excess bleeding.It is a proven fact that woman are electing their own c-sections and inductions.Pitocin increases the contractions to pursue birth but what many people are not told is that it actually increases risk to the baby because pitocin causes much stronger contractions than our bodies naturally produce.This is the main reason of fetal distress which in turn causes emergency c-sections.Recent studies reaffirm earlier World Health Organization recommendations about optimal cesarean section rates. The best outcomes for mothers and babies appear to occur with cesarean section rates of 5% to 10%. Rates above 15% seem to do more harm than good (Althabe and Belizan 2006).However, the national cesarean section rate is much higher and has been increasing steadily for more than a decade. With the 2007 rate at 31.8%, about one mother in three now gives birth by cesarean section, a record level for the United States.
Most mothers are healthy and have good reason to anticipate uncomplicated childbirth. Cesarean section is major surgery and increases the likelihood of many short- and longer-term adverse effects for mothers and babies (some of these harms are listed below). There are clear, authoritative recommendations for more judicious use of this procedure (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2000).Isnt it time to start trusting our own bodies once again and get rid of the fears that have been bred into modern day woman? Hopefully we will not lose natural childbirth completely...but for the most part this could be a very real issue here In North America.
Most mothers are healthy and have good reason to anticipate uncomplicated childbirth. Cesarean section is major surgery and increases the likelihood of many short- and longer-term adverse effects for mothers and babies (some of these harms are listed below). There are clear, authoritative recommendations for more judicious use of this procedure (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2000).Isnt it time to start trusting our own bodies once again and get rid of the fears that have been bred into modern day woman? Hopefully we will not lose natural childbirth completely...but for the most part this could be a very real issue here In North America.