One Born Every Minute

I couldn't really watch full episodes of the series but, the clips that I have seen look crazy. The first thing that popped up was "two grandmothers" fighting because they were getting tired of each other. Then another clip I saw was of a lady in season two that refused to let her husband breathe his "toxic" germs on her. But getting back to business, there was clip that I found that was a bit humorous but serious at the same time. This particular couple was having their second child and the husband said, "I think we could skip out on the epidural this time to lighten up our bill". This made me think of the documentary that we watched earlier in class. Baby birthing is where the big money is and hospitals are milking parents out of their money. From what I've seen, the show portrays women's health as one determined by the doctors. The women don't have too much say either because they're in too much pain, they are too drugged up to even know what's going on, or they're sent on a guilt trip saying that their baby needs this and that. But really it's just something to hurry up the birthing process and fill the bed again with another pregnant woman ready to give birth. The interests and concerns of soon-to-be-mothers are not really important as the doctors who are almost never there until it’s time to push. I'm glad that whenever the baby has complications, everybody is hasty to uncomplicate the situation (I think the just made up that word). Just thinking about the baby, maybe all of the drugs that are given to mothers are what's complicating children. In the documentary, they explained that the drug Pitocin, which is used to induce labor, slows down the baby's heart rate. My question is why they are giving these women these medicines and not telling them what it could do to their baby's health. But, I guess it all boils down to money. The people that are being portrayed as knowledgeable would be the nurses and doctors, of course. Mothers know nothing about their bodies and nothing about giving birth, except for these wonderful doctors and nurses, who according to the documentary never actually saw a natural birth. I would hope that the people that are being portrayed as being strong would be the mothers. They are the actual people that push babies out of their vaginas. In my opinion, that's as strong as strong gets. When I start having kids, I want to look as graceful as those women did in the documentary. I don't want to look crazy and hysterical because I'm in pain and everyone around me is being hasty and not trying coming me down like in the wild pregnancy shows. The pregnancy shows out now, truthfully scare me out of having kids. The birthing process to me was something to be feared, but after watching the documentary, it’s something that I want to experience naturally and peacefully.