“Reality” Birth Show Hits Too Close to Home for Doulas

I will admit I haven’t watched One Born Every Minute yet.  It is a new reality birth show on Lifetime.  Honestly I don’t know if I will watch it.  I have it set up to record, but I know if I watch it I will spend the majority of the time yelling at the TV.

How do I know this?  Because these birth bloggers watched and posted about it.

• Gina from The Feminist Breeder posted about how it shows One Unnecessary Intervention a Minute!
• Then Birthing Beautiful Ideas posted about how the show makes Natural Childbirth look crazy.  She tackles the question of, What does Natural Childbirth look like anyway.
• Then The Public Health Doula posted about how sadly what this show depicts is what we see as doulas all the time.

From reading their posts, I can tell I would be yelling at the TV, just as they did.  I also know it would probably hit too close to home, as I often see unnecessary interventions during birth.

I am always SO HAPPY when my doula clients change care providers to ones I know are low intervention ones.  When they do I find that I am usually a lot happier attending their births and the parents are a lot more happy too!  🙂

I hope that the women who watch these shows realize this is not what birth really looks like, or at least it SHOULDN’T look like this!  That by watching it will inspire them to educate themselves more!

Maybe they will download my free book, The Top Three Tips to Enjoy Your Birth and empower themselves to make the best choices for their birth and have great births.