The Business of Being Born
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Abby Epstein Genres Documentary, Indie film Country United States | 7.4/10 IMDb Initial DVD release May 6, 2008 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 9, 2008 (2008-01-09) Cast Julia Barnett Tracy (Julia Barnett Tracy), Abby Epstein (Abby Epstein), Ina May Gaskin (Ina May Gaskin), Ricki Lake (Herself)Similar movies Entre leurs mains , More Business of Being Born , Beautiful Births , Birth Into Being - The Russian Waterbirth Experience , Birth In Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Business of Being Born is a 2008 documentary film that explores the contemporary experience of childbirth in the United States. Directed by Abby Epstein and produced by Ricki Lake, it compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals, and Cesarean sections.
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Content
The film criticizes the American health care system with its emphasis on medicines and costly interventions and its view of childbirth as a medical emergency rather than a natural occurrence. Lake drew inspiration for the documentary from the disappointing experience she had had with the birth of her first son, Milo Sebastian Sussman.
The film documents actual home births and water births, including in the latter category that of Lake's own second son, Owen Tyler Sussman. They follow a midwife, Cara, in New York City as she takes care of and attends several births. They then give the audience several statistics about our current birthing techniques and challenges today's doctors. Many experts are interviewed and they cite a multitude of reasons for these, such as the overuse of medical procedures in the interest of saving time.
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DVD release
The DVD was released in the US on May 6, 2008 and soon after an international version was released.
References
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