Letters to the Editor
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Choice
Personally, I'm skeeved out by the idea of homebirth. Lying naked in a bathtub filled with your own personal recipe of primordial goo into which your new baby slides is not my idea of a 'peaceful' or serene experience prime for child-bonding. However, I think that the bigger point to take home on this piece, and of Ms. Lake and Ms. Epstein's film journey is that we are presented with data, personal experiences, medical advice, etc...and offered a choice, one that was not always available to women.
Whether you choose to have that intimate experience in a hospital, lying up in stirrups with the possibility of caesarian lurking but with all medical technology available should there be complications; or at home surrounded by family with the frightening prospect of problems occurring...you still got to choose. No one should be bullied into either choice, by the medical community, the association of midwives, or the catty comments of other judgmental women.