Confessions of a Blogaholic

I just watched this movie, and I feel more committed to an unmedicated birth than ever before. I never realized how much of a "business industry" giving birth in the United States has become. I didn't know that a pitocin/epidural cocktail has so many negative effects, and I certainly didn't know that the U.S. has some of the worst statistics for births in industrialized countries (higher death rates, much higher rate of c-sections, etc.). And...I learned a lot about the history of childbirth and how it has changed throughout time in the U.S. (You should see some of the contraptions they hooked women up to in the 1920's).

I stand by my conviction that the body will do exactly what it is supposed to do, and that we (as women) are intended to go through birth as a sort of rite of passage. Again, nothing against those who choose to do otherwise, I just have to keep pumping myself up for the next 12 weeks to take this venture on :)