This is a documentary about midwifery. I know what you're thinking. It's a real word. I promise. Anyway, there are some statistics presented here that are pretty shocking provided that they're true. The history of obstetrics (I'll correct the spelling of that in post-production) is pretty horrifying. Twilight Sleep in particular. They also show a woman giving a water birth, at home, with a midwife, and there was a bunch of grunting, but no screams or drugs involved. She just pooped that baby out in no time. It was pretty amazing.
It was largely a piece about how hospitals make birthing way harder than it needs to be and so on and so forth. Ironically the director's own baby was breach and had to be taken to the hospital to have a c-section as a result. Her doctor was actually very cool with her wanting a home birth though, and was there when she needed him, so everything ended well.
If you're pregnant or trying to become pregnany I would suggest that you give it a watch. It's less than an hour and a half. You can do it!
I'm Dave and this has been your virtual reality check.
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