HULU~DOCUMENTARY

A midwife does not have the ability to do a C section if needed. Nobody wants to have one of course but that option has saved millions of lives. Not having the ability to be near a hospial with SURGEONS and an operating room is IMO taking a huge risk for no good reason other than selfishness.
Please. No reason to think that OBGYN care is a big conspiracy to cram in as many c-sections as possible. Regardless of what some documentary says. When it is a matter of mere minutes between a healthy or brain dead baby, give me a hospital any day.

 I refrained from posting until I had a chance to go back and read the posts to you about your lap-band, for the record *I* never called you a post -RNYer trying to start trouble, *I* never said anything about it being "my" board, *I* DID say that the story of a surgeon who would band some random muscle in the chest and then refuse to fix it b/c of scar tissue sounded like a story for Ripley's. I mean doesn't it? A surgeon does something catastrophically wrong and then tells the patient "sorry, I am not going to fix it", *I* said it sounded like a medical impossibility that a surgeon who has done 1000's of lap bands (your words) would not know the difference between your stomach and some other muscle in your chest. And *I* pointed out the reasons I thought the scar tissue defense (whether yours or the doctors) was not a good one. 

Maybe you had me confused with one of the other posters that was removed, or one of the people who emailed you, but whatever the case, most of what you accused me of was false. 

As for the current topic, I didn't have to go to med school to see the trends in the data, the soring c-section rate, the crazy complications that happen b/c of interventions and the fact that even though we have the most hospital births in the US, we still have a very high mortality rate.

You can look it all up for yourself, the studies and data and information are easy to get your hands on, but people who  have strong opinions like yours rarely look at the other side to see it if has merit, they just dismiss it out of hand (as you have in most of this post) and choose to believe they are right. Nothing I can say or show you will change your mind, but I felt the need to defend myself against your false accusations.

I have to say I really didn't enjoy pregnant in America.  The husband/director was an arrogant a-hole.  It was extremely one sided.  It was totally ANTI hospital births.

I much preferred The Business of Being born.  Very informative without being judgmental.  I wish I had watched it before I had my daughter.

 I loved the Business of Being born, I have no****ched Pregnant in America yet.