I also disagree with the statement "it is not safe to birth at home"

All blanket statements don't help the situation

In certain cirumstances, i believe it is just as safe to birth at home, perhaps even safer... But part of the reason why the 'good' stats that Kelly quoted, is if they pick up certain complications early (like pre-eclampsia, high risk b/c of previous uterine rupture, placenta previa etc) - is the fact that they won't let you birth in a birth centre - and probably for good reason, because they realise that these women might/do need higher levels of care

It kind of skews the stats a bit... if you had everybody birthing at home with no access to medical help, they would have a higher rate or maternal and neonatal death.

I just believe there is a place for everything - low intervention births, and the realisation that sometimes things do go wrong, and help can be needed. I refuse to believe that EVERY dr thinks, 'great something has gone wrong, how much money can i make by giving her x,y or z?'

And even if they were making money out of me, if i needed it i would rather pay

The fact of life is that by living in a non communist country, every service you access, somebody will benefit financially from that..

Flowerchild when you say
It is a true statement that complications are caused by intervention. That is a fact
, wouldn't a better statement be "some complications are caused by intervention".

All these doco makers had to add in is the word "some", and they would have made that part a lot more neutral instead of quite biased.

Even in extreme circumstances, making your doco one sided won't really help to educate people... if you want to have true journalistic integrity, you have to make a balanced presentation of the facts.

But i still want to see it... I just hate anything in newspapers, books etc that is biased... I can still remember my Yr 12 English CAT where we analyzed newspaper articles, i still find myself doing it all the time