mamarama - "Business of Being Born" documentary 05/07.2

Segment description: Continuation of discussion "Business of Being Born" Natural & Medical birth practices

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• mamarama
• birth
• birthing
• centers
• business
• of
• being
• born
• ricki
• lake
• abby
• epstein
• epidural
• c-section

[BeautifulDisaster519]

Just a word of advice, this would be much more effective if you didn't say "umm, uhh" over 60 times in the first 8 minutes. I was interested in what you were saying, but couldnt watch anymore after the first 8 minutes because the longer you get into the video, the more you say "umm uhh" and it makes you seem like you aren't experienced in what you are talking about. sorry but true.

[mamaramatv]

@BeautifulDisaster519 - hey there, you are not the first to recognize this - believe me I'm not insulted. It's really too bad that this is so unwatchable because A LOT of people have wanted to view this clip. Here's the deal - I do my show all the time where I talk sort of "ad lib" into the camera and do just fine! What happened here was I suddenly realized that Ricki and Abby - the creators of this excellent film, would be watching me and I totally blew it and stuttered ALL OVER myself.

[mamaramatv]

Thank you; I fully agree with you - there is certainly no ONE way to birth and I would never want to imply that one way is better than another. (I think I've since changed my stance since this video aired)

[konnely]

once she gets into talking about what she knows, the umms go away!!!

[mamaramatv]

yes! you unlocked the mystery. I was thinking too hard that Ricki and her director would be watching/judging and I got nervous. Later on, it's more about what I think and then I forgot my "audience". thx.

[srt2oo6]

wtf?

[mamaramatv]

What kind of comment is "wtf"? Please elaborate.

[Zwobu]

See, this is where things get kind of weird. Why is a long labor automatically associated with a more painful labor? I think anything less than a 10 hour labor, for me personally that is, way too fast. I like the slow controlled build up so my body can take everything in and prepare itself.

I just had a 3 hour labor and boy was that traumatic... you hardly have time to get ready to pull the baby out!

[AnniaMarie]

I will be delivering my first baby at home with a certified midwife and husband. As soon as i knew i was pregnant i knew it was going to be at home and not in a hospital. NO interventions, no bullshit. I am a woman and i want to birth my baby in the best way i can. I am a healthy woman. I eat organics, take no meds. I control my health. Hospital births are for those that are high risk and dont take control of there health. pretty sad

[zinnmarx]

Very much enjoyed your commentary. I did not notice any extraneous "ums" until I read someone's comment. I found your idiosyncrasies settling and warmly unpolished. The irony of wanting everything scripted and produced is this temper lends itself to the highly

polished hospital births. So, please, UM away; much more natural than reading (and edited) from a teleprompter.

[brittneyanne82]

@AnniaMarie what's sad is when mothers presume to know what is best for other women. Hospital births are not just for high risk pregnancies or women who don't take control of their health. Birth your baby the best way you can, and then support other women who are birthing their babies the best way THEY can. Don't presume to know why they make the decisions they do regarding their health choices.

[brittneyanne82]

I think it is incredibly offensive and presumtive to allege that mothers who do not experience unmedicated, non hospital births don't bond as well with their babies.

[karinwullfrodt]

This video is absolutly true woman don´t have the confidence to have babies the way we suposed (normal birth) I think the video is very interested .. but I have a message for you if you are tryng to make people untherstand and have birth at home ...make it short and graphic.!!!

[AaronTabuchi]

@mamaramatv informative. I didn't expect or need an over-produced video to obtain useful content from this video. What you said is effective for people who don't need a "sterile clinical" verbal presentation to see past your nervousness and hear the content of what you communicated. People miss out on useful information when they subconsciously equate perfect language with perfect knowledge. I've met/heard many incredibly brilliant people who say "umm" alot... it's called character.

[Jessabelle2188]

I was 18 when I had my son. I didn't know much about my options and when my water broke I went to the hospital. They told me my contractions were not strong enough so they kept giving me higher and higher doses of pitocin. It got so difficult that I got an epidural which I really didn't want. I ended up going through 18 hours of labor and finally delivered my son vaginally. My son wasn't breathing away and he had to be given oxygen. I didn't bond with him right away, I didn't breastfeed.

[mona6133]

I had a very long birth (3 days) and had an epidural. After my baby was born I was too exhausted to hold her, and I couldn't breastfeed her.  I don't think I bonded really well with her at first, I'm not sure if it was the effect of the epidural or the long birth. And until she was a couple weeks old, I had a lot of trouble breastfeeding her, but she is 15 months old now and still breastfeeding.