Business of Being Born Response

I think one of the most important moments in the film was that midwives did not pressure the women. Watching the film, in my opinion, made the audience more comfortable to the choice of having a home birth. The film emphasized the significance of having a midwife present during birth. Midwives allows the women to have power over her birth process, unlike doctors who only care about the money. Doctors charge the women at least 12K-13K for a normal birth with no complications and midwives only charge 4K.

When watching the film, the audience can tell that doctors always center themselves in the hospitals. The doctors are the ones who make the decision about whether or not the women should have an intervention and most of the time, the women do get an intervention. Most doctors give the women an intervention because if something goes wrong, then it is the doctor's fault and here goes the money problem. While the women is delivering a baby at the hospital, she is strapped down to the bed, metaphorically describing how the women does not have control over her choices and her own body. The film mentioned that the doctors just comes to deliver the baby and then leaves while the midwives continues to take care of the women.