in response to the original post, i reckon leave it to the wayside for now. tell her she is strong and beautiful and wish her all the best for the birth! (oh and tell her to visit BB sometime LOL!)

what i love about the BOBB is that it is not a horror movie. despite the fact that i went down the conventional, potentially high interventionist route of a private hospital and OB etc, the film allowed me to feel (i saw it 4 months after DD was born..at the BB screening) for the first time that what i did in birthing my daughter was beautiful and powerful (something that i felt was taken away from me by the hospital where birth is a business and we are all just objects on the treadmill popping one after the other). because i guess the overall message of the film is that birth can be and is empowering, and that it is time for us women to take back the power and claim birth for what it is: our baby, our choice. because at the end of the day being informed provides choice. without the women who have gone before us demanding choice there may never of been precedents of having babies in recovery post C-section, there may never of been rooming in at hospitals, let alone waterbirths!