Most women call a doctor’s office the minute they test positive for pregnancy.
Most women faithfully go into that doctor’s office for all their appointments, carefully follow that doctor’s advice and at the end of their pregnancy go to a hospital and let that doctor dictate how they give birth.
Most — but not all.
The documentary, The Business of Being Born, released in 2008, opened many people’s eyes to the idea that although one in three American women have Caesarean sections, and induction of labor is even more common than that, they have other options, such as whether to have pain medication via an epidural, or pitocin-induced labors that often lead to surgical births. And they can choose whether to have their babies with all, some or none of those things in the hospital or naturally, with little or no intervention at home.
See tomorrow’s Family section for more about the choices some women are making regarding bringing their babies into the world.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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