I had the opportunity this weekend to see the Ricki Lake-produced film "The Business of Being Born".  It is an eye-opening documentary comparing midwife assisted birthing to medical birthing.  I enjoyed the film very much.  I imagined thousands or hundreds of thousands of women seeing the film and feeling powerful enough to seek an alternative to a medical birth.
You can imagine my dismay, then, when one of the final scenes shows an eight month old bottle feeding, accompanied by the mother saying, "I had a lot of trouble breastfeeding". 

Cate Edlebeck, RN, IBCLC
The Breastfeeding Clinic at St. Mary's




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