The Business of Being Born Message Board

Dear all: just saw “The business of being born.” I think it is a wonderful antidote to the depressing stories of birth. It is realistic and gritty and oh so accurate. I loved the births of the producer, the director and the primary midwife and others, each different and special.

We have been talking about learning another language to talk about birth—to counterbalance the side-effect-pathological view. This is the beginning. It is the most articulate description of the whole experience: the uncertainly, the fear, the pain, the joy, the indescribable power…We all need it. The recent Conference on CS in BC did well too, with the clips from the women. The conference proceedings available on the website …posted and now on our own website. That conference morphed from CS lowering to normal birth promoting. That was the science, but this film is the soul.

Michael
Canada