I finally watched "The Business of Being Born" last night with DH and felt so privileged to have had a natural birth. I was in tears for most of the movie and interestingly came to a place of peace with my first son's birth (OB was in attendance and there were various interventions but when you consider I was a lawyer who was "technically" at 42 weeks gestation with first baby in a private hospital delivering a posterior baby, my OB was very restrained in that I had an unassisted vaginal delivery with gas as my only pain relief!)

Anyway, I digress. There is a lawyer at work who is 37-38 and pregnant with her first child. I kinda get the impression she is "leaving birth up to her doctor" IYKWIM? When I mentioned I had watched a DVD about the birth process and medicalisation of birth and that I was happy to lend her a copy she said, "Oh, I think sometimes ignorance is bliss".

I don't really feel like I can push the issue any more with her - I have said what wonderful experiences I had with both my births and let her know I have nothing but positive things to say about midwife-led birth and natural delivery. But what more can I do? How have others handled this? Maybe ignorance is bliss - if she expects a c-section and/or OB intervention and gets it, maybe she won't be traumatised by it?

I can only imagine how hard it is to be a birth educator in the face of such a sad situation.