Women's Power! Vagina Power!

For the past few months, I've been reading and watching films about birth, particularly modern maternity care in the US and natural birth. The movie that started it all was Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein's "The Business of Being Born" (2007) Go Ricki! Go Ricki!

Here's the trailer, it's amazing!



I must preface this all with,
1) I've never given birth or carried a pregnancy to term.
and
2) because of that I realize that until I have a child of my own, I can never fully understand the magnitude of childbirth. I feel it's like the woman said at the end of the trailer, "Nothing compares to the privilege of giving life and the responsibility of that." That is something I hold true in my heart...I mean to make a life that's a fucking trip and might as well ride the trip until the end...what's crazy is that, after reading up and all, you wonder, "Why is the United States doing things so differently than other countries?" Our births are overmedicalized. How can you labor if you aren't even allowed to move around? Or feel your legs after an epidural for that matter? The whole thing seems very counter-intuitive to me. Besides after witnessing some amazing natural/home births, it's awe-inspiring and beautiful to see women at their most powerful in a way...(this is not to say that birth defines woman, far from it, merely to point at the natural beauty and empowerment of that process)

Anyway, I gotta get to work...I can't wait to have a baby to experience it for myself. Actually, I can wait, let's give it a few years! Maybe I should find a job first!

This is my last week at the ole' cave and I am happy about it. I have two interviews at higher education institutions Thurs and Fri morns. Wish me luck everybody. I hope I knock 'em dead. I have to remember though that this is a long process and to not waste all my best shit on the first interview...

Gotta motor. Peas and Carrots. Der.


P.S. I just found the pic above online, lemme know if it's like some nazi women power shit or i dunno what...