> But I saw the most appalling thing on TV
>last week: some kind of obscure TV station (maybe "Discovery"?)has a show
>that consists of the pregnancy and birth stories of different couples - I
>was really shocked at how what I would think of as highly
>medicalized births
>were shown as normal, over and over again. Anyway, the thing that *really*
>kicked me in the teeth in this episode I caught was that the woman was in
>the hospital "with her epidural already in place" at 2-3 cm. dilated!

This show is called "A Baby Story" (or something along those lines) and I
think it is on Lifetime.  I've only seen it 4-5 times and it does appear to
be heavily slanted towards interventions. I saw one woman in full makeup,
with perfectly coifed hair, having a scheduled C-section.  I didn't think
makeup would be allowed during surgery.  Don't you need to see lip and skin
tone?

But, I did see a midwife-attended waterbirth at home where breastfeeding was
talked about as normal.  Another episode showed the parents interviewing
pediatricians.  They interviewed Jay Gordon (who speaks often at LLL
conferences).  They asked how long they should breastfeed and without pause
he said "Two years."

Kathy, in soggy Maryland...no rain but the humidity has swelled my front
door so badly I can't close it!

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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
Great Mills, MD
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