And one more
Apr. 14th, 2008 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutG. and I watched the Ricki Lake-produced homebirth documentary, The Business of Being Born, on Saturday night. Definitely opinionated, which is fine -- I like people with opinions. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter, for sure. It's definitely informative and enlightening, even for those of us
(If I were to level one criticism, it would be very small and very high level -- I would have liked to see more links into our health care system in general and the way it does things, and how this affects hospital birth practices too. But that's OK. I can make those connections on my own.)
P.S. Told my mother I was skipping amniocentesis. We had a really interesting conversation about it, in which she supported me completely. (She opened with, "I was wondering what you were thinking about that.") She chose differently, and for good reasons, but her situation (over 40, previous problems) and my situation (under 40, no previous problems, twins) were different, and that's more or less what we discussed. It was nice to have such a high degree of mutual respect for our choices.
(If I were to level one criticism, it would be very small and very high level -- I would have liked to see more links into our health care system in general and the way it does things, and how this affects hospital birth practices too. But that's OK. I can make those connections on my own.)
P.S. Told my mother I was skipping amniocentesis. We had a really interesting conversation about it, in which she supported me completely. (She opened with, "I was wondering what you were thinking about that.") She chose differently, and for good reasons, but her situation (over 40, previous problems) and my situation (under 40, no previous problems, twins) were different, and that's more or less what we discussed. It was nice to have such a high degree of mutual respect for our choices.
