Oh Kel, we will just be like long lost buddies!!!!:lol: x:
Oh Kel, we will just be like long lost buddies!!!!:lol: x:
Yup Gracie, babes in arms are welcome... its just too graphic in some parts for older ones thats all. I just had a room full of women agree with me who have seen it tonight.
M - Only diff is that you have seen me before and I haven't seen you!!! :P
thanks kelly, i'm gonna buy my ticket right now!
Okay Sam (Raven) now you have seen it!!! Feel free to pass on your thoughts, feedback, reviews etc without giving away too much of course ;) ;)
do i just give my email address at the door to get in? paid via paypal last night. i'm really looking forward to it. i love ricki lake!
Arent you just a little scared???:lol::
It's an awesome film!
It is fast paced in the way it is edited so you need to concentrate to take it all in. In a couple of places it feels a bit hectic but it really gets you thinking about how and why things work the way they do with birth.
I have had some time to digest the message and I think that it is trying to make women understand that they need to trust in their bodies. We have been conditioned to accept that medicalised birth is the norm and happily submit ourselves without question. Women need to stop and ask why are they being rushed along? What is the urgency? Who's best interest is being met here?
Mine...My Babies...the Dr's...or the Hospitals Coffers?
Ok so sometimes they need a little "jumpstart" but women need to know that by submitting to one procedure they are putting themselves in a very vulnerable position and leaving themselves open to more and more interventions and having an outcome that is so far removed from what they want.
It gives a balanced view by including a hospital transfer and emergency c-section at the end of the movie. By showing that it reinforces that homebirth doesn't leave you on your own abandoned without medical help. Midwives are trained professionals and have drugs and oxygen on hand if it's needed. Also if there is need, it is quick and easy to up and go to hospital where medical assistance is on hand.
The home birth scenes are AMAZING! So beautiful and calm. I teared up a few times (as I do...I can't help it ;) ).
The footage of what they used to do to women is the disturbing element. It is absolutely NOT suitable for children. It is scary and even now thinking about it makes me feel outraged and saddened for my grandmothers generation who were subject to that level of abuse :crying:
Oh Sammi, you've got me even more excited about it! I feel a bit hesitant now though, I'm sure I will find it quite upsetting. I hope I don't cry too much........happy tears are okay ;) but not distressed ones.
One week to go!!!!
I'm so excited for this!
I wanted to see it from when i first heard about it, but seeing as it was showing in Syd and it was almost 2 weeks after i was due (it turned out to be the night before i gave birth in the end!) there was no way, and i thought i wouldn't get to see it for a long time..
Although if i went, maybe i could have avoided making Kelly fly home from Sydney!
And I'm excited to meet lots of people from BellyBelly :)
6 days to go!
Great review Raven :) Now I'm really looking forward to it!
5 sleeps :D
Ummmm, Kelly, something tells me that you're really excited about this! :p
Just being silly :P :dance:
It's one of my last big things for the year so getting into holiday mode too :D
Well, for goodness' sake, stop being silly - don't you know you have a hardnosed reputation to maintain? ;)
:P
Silly season - cant help myself :) And a hard earnt holiday in Jan too - sooooo can't wait! But I am also excited to show people this film :)
So really you're just counting down til the holidays LOL.
Seriously, I'm glad someone else is excited, I can't wait!
Yep am excited ;) I love the journey people go through seeing this film. As the slogan says, you'll never look at birth the same way again. Even for me, it had an effect, as much as I see it happen in real life all the time, so much in there really hit home. It gave me even more confidence in my own body and a stronger determination to have a beautiful homebirth next time surrounded by nurturing women. I just can't imagine being in hospital again, unless I am sick - and as far as I am concerned, being pregnant or labouring doesn't mean sick!
YAY! At least two more girls from mother's group are coming......I hope there are tickets left? Also, I wanted to check that it's not allocated seating?
Yes there are a few left - and not allocated so first in first served!
ps. 4 sleeps :P
Well I am very excited about this too and am just praying that my babysitters are available for me.
DH and I are meant to be going out tomorrow night, but a death in the family has seen my parents make a dash to Edenhope and now I have to stay home and miss out on the party, and they are all lined up to have the kids on Monday night.
Yay- this is tomorrow! I've realised though that we never received tickets or any confirmation... are our names just on a list at the door or something? Our paypal confirmation also says "1 adult" but then $50 paid... so I assume it's fairly obvious we actually paid for 2 adults?
Yup names at the door! I'm going to be off for the day now - see you there!!! xxx
Thanks for replying.... I ending up finding that through the link in your sig. Didn't think you would be on at all today- have a great day!
I don't know what happened but 4 some reason the post i made in this thread isn't showing up so i 'm going to post it again because i'd really like to know.
Has anyone got any details on QLD showings yet please?? I'm sure someone,it may have been Leasha,said something about the helping hands program at caboolture hospital showing it but when i asked the woman at the antenatal clinic she had no idea & i don't know who else to ask.
TIA:)
Kelly had the interstate screenings listed somewhere.... just can't recall where exactly... sorry.
Yeah i clicked on the link for it but it didn't actually give any QLD dates,which is why i thought i would ask.Thanks anyway:)
So what did everyone think?
I saw it and loved it :)
it inforces to me that hospitals suck :P
Did you see it tonight supreme?
No I saw it last Thursday with my daughter at La trobe :)
Thanks so much for this, Kel - it affirmed everything I have come to know about birthing! I'm definitely adding this one to my personal library when it comes out on DVD next year.
What a beautiful film! Great to catch up with so many people, too!
Sez - thanks for finding me! I was going to introduce you to some others who wanted to meet you IRL, and you were gone! I was telling Bathsheba that you have a 'perfect little face' ... now she'll have to wait to see!
Kell - I didn't write my contact details on my or my friend's raffle tickets, and I'm sure that I had the winning ticket (!!!) - would you post here if someone won who only put a first name (in the case of my friend, I put her surname initial)? I'm sure I won ;)
THANK YOU!!!
I loved it- I was captivated through the whole movie! I would love to be able to see it again before writing my birth plan as it raised some questions for me but I've forgotten what they were :lol: I'm sure the trusty books will help though.
I didn't find it changed my opinion or was a huge revelation to me but it certainly cemented a lot. Even little things like the long term effect the drugs could have on babies... I'm always saying that, but not with any real backing. It was nice to see it raised in the movie. I found the effect of a lack of natural drugs for the baby an interesting point that I hadn't considered before.
Thank you so much for organising this Kelly! Please say a huge thank you to Miranda too... her story scared me though. My worst nightmare is get bumped from the birth centre... why can we have so little trust in the medical professionals surrounding birth??? :(
I'm glad to hear you guys enjoyed it so much. I would have loved to have chatted to you guys there about it but unfortunately I couldn't go as I've been struck down with gastro :(
Looking forward to hearing what more of you think!
Ren - do you mean Melani? Yeah it was full on that birth - she has actually shared her birth story here on BB I will get the link. What did everyone else think of her story? She told it so well :)
i enjoyed it. i thought the girl with the curly hair who had the homebirth was amazing and she got me all choked up when she was saying 'my baby, my baby' after he was born. it was great to watch.
the thing that really struck a cord with me the most was the old guy with the thick accent and subtitles talking about the natural good hormones that were realeased after the birth. the love hormones and how too much intervention could interfere with that.
it worried me when they talked about how they don't know the true effects of everything that goes on at birth and about how there had been a huge increase in adhd and autism in kids. the thalimide link is a very scarey thought.
i also appreciated how they showed that abbey needed a c-section in the end. they were willing to be unbiased in their film-making and concede that there is a definite place for c-sections. she needed one, and had one. i thought this was a great show of irony and a good sort of twist to the film. it made there point stronger that they weren't saying that ceasarians are bad, just that they tend to be overused by some doctors and women in america. the whole plastic surgery/posh spice/ britney spears link was interesting too. i had never really thought about that.
Yes- I have a terrible memory for names! I thought she told it SO well- I felt like I was there. And please don't tell me it's at the same place we're going to Kelly... :pray::
OoOoh Michel Odent is the French Ob/Gyn. If you love him - as we all do - grab one or two of his books! Birth Reborn is awesome, I have it. But he has been doing some amazing work in birth, as have many of those people you saw in the film. Many of them have been lobbying and researching for sooooo long its not funny. Wonderful that now a celebrity has brought them to attention.
So Ren, would you be going somewhere in the city or SE suburbs? Is it a birth centre? It was not the Mercy or the Angliss or the Womens :) But all have their horror stories, this was not a one off. My sister is going to the Angliss and she gets booted out the BC at 10 days!!! So even less than the one that was spoken about. However the Angliss is one of the more highly spoken of BC's - a few IM's (independent middies) work there and know how to work it ;).
I don't understand... - BellyBelly Forums ~ Pregnancy, Birth & Baby
There it is!!! If you haven't read her birth story, definitely worth reading :)