WOW. Yesterday I saw one of the most chilling movies I have seen since Zeitgeist.com,

(if you haven’t seen that one, check it out!).

The Business of Being Born is a movie made by Ricki Lake in her process of having her babies. One was done in a hospital, the other was a home birth. This documentary follows what happens to Ricki and a handful of other women as they go through the process of having babies both in hospitals and at home with midwives.

A MUST SEE for a women, especially those who plan to have children.

Some things to consider:

Maternity care is in crisis in America - use of unnecessary and deeply harmful drugs that can and do harm the baby - few natural births happening in America whereas it is quite natural in the rest of the world - women lose the power that comes with birthing - we are not even aware there IS A POWER to be had in giving birth - the ramifications of cesarean births, etc. Please go see this movie.

Namaste,

Alissa