The Business of Being Born Documentary Video Clip
If you know anyone who is pregnant or planning on having children or has had children, they gotta watch this documentary video clip. This is shocking.
Hospital Baby Labor Interventions with Epidural and Pitocin
In the hospital, you’re not allowed to have very long labors. So if you’re not dilating rapidly, which you’re likely not to do if you get an epidural early in labor, you will be given Pitocin. You’ll put the Pitocin in the IV. It will flow into your veins. Pitocin makes contractions longer and stronger and closer together. So then the pain of labor is much worse. The hospital has you go with that for a while because you have the epidural, but eventually the pain of the contractions is overwhelming the epidural. You need to up the epidural and then labor slows down more because of that. So then you need more Pitocin.
Now you’re not feeling the pain of the extra Pitocin because you’ve got the epidural, but your baby is getting compressed blood and oxygen supply because Pitocin contractions last so long and are so strong, the blood and oxygen flow to the baby is compromised. So then the baby‘s likely to go into distress and then you’re sent off for a hospital emergency cesarean from a baby in distress from contractions induced by the Pitocin, which was necessitated by the epidural. Step by step, one intervention leads to a series of interventions.
Ending up with a Cesarean Baby Birth
The net result is the mother finally ends up with a cesarean and everybody says, thank God we were able to do all those interventions to save your baby. The fact of the matter is if the hospital didn’t start the cascade of interventions, none of that would have been necessary. There is clearly an association with induction of labor and cesarean delivery.
