Awesome find. More than eight years ago my wife gave birth to her first child and we were miserable too about how idiotic and how idiotically expensive and why c-sections are so common. We found out about these arguments years ago. I scrounged the book stores and found Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood.
I have since then vowed that this victimization of our mothers ends with my wife’s generation. My children and my grandchildren will not suffer the same commercialized victimized common fate.
Now comes a film by actress Ricki Lake, similarly victimized by commercial birthing.
Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to examine and question the way American women have babies. The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director Epstein discovers she is pregnant during the making of the film, the journey becomes even more personal. Should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potentially catastrophic medical emergency?
For the purposes of pronatalism, having more children, we need to find a safe, cheap and reliable method of giving birth. The book Healing our Children by Rami Nagel comes close.
Watch the trailer of The Business of Being Born, then go watch the whole film. Then buy the book Healing our Children. Give birth to many, many children, safe, cheap, reliable.