Anyone seen it? I watched this last night. It's an American film (produced by Rikki Lake, you get to see her give birth, hmmm) so I'm not sure how easily you could get it in the UK. I got it on netflix so it may be easy enough.
Anyway, you all should watch it so you can appreciate how good the NHS is.
Apart from the birthing bits (I've managed to avoid all birthing videos up until now) which made me scream in terror and run off and hide sobbing for 20 minutes it's made me absolutely TERRIFIED that I could end up having to go into hospital for the birth. It'll be in dire circumstances that I leave the house now.
The US has the highest infant and mother mortality rate in the developed world (and spends twice as much as anywhere else, hmm, see a link?) and they think almost a HALF of births are caesarean now.
I've known 4 girls give birth in the last couple of months and they all wanted a natural, drug free birth. All four were told they HAD to have pitocin to induce labour then the contractions are so long and painful they have to get an epidural which slows down the birth so more pitocin leading to another epidural then the docs say "it's not going as we'd like" so they scare them into having a c section.
Lots of ob-gyn doctors have admitted this is to fit in with their personal lives, to avoid being sued and because the insurance company and hospital would rather half a 20 minute c section which they can charge £30,000 and up for than a 2-3 day labour, taking up a bed which they can charge £10-15,000 for.
Please tell me things aren't heading this way in the UK? I'm pretty sure I'd rather have the next one back there!