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00:03 As soon as I saw that video, I was like, oh, I'm having home

00:11 birth.

00:12 It's for me.

00:13 Outside of a hospital, how do you work with an obstetrician?

00:16 Do you have backup?

00:17 We made the business of being born,

00:18 and we found that there were still so many unanswered

00:21 basic questions.

00:23 People think about birth as this one day event.

00:27 When labor is a beautiful metaphor for life.

00:31 Women have been giving birth naturally

00:34 for gazillions of years.

00:35 I was like, I can do it.

00:36 If my mom can do it, I can totally do it.

00:38 I just believed in the strength of my own body.

00:41 It is the most empowering experience ever.

00:43 We were so excited to visit the farm.

00:45 Getting to meet Ayname, the pioneer midwife,

00:48 was like a dream come true for me.

00:50 And she just said, Alanis, I need you to reach down,

00:56 and I need you to pull up your baby.

00:57 And I said to her, I was like, no, no, no.

01:00 But see, the contractions have gotten a lot stronger.

01:03 She's like, oh, honey, this is nothing.

01:05 And all of a sudden, spontaneously, my water broke.

01:07 It just broke, and it was like, ah.

01:09 Like, you know, I mean, the heavens opened up.

01:11 I was like, this is amazing.

01:12 My husband whispers in my ear, you're 9 centimeters.

01:14 You're almost there.

01:15 They were like, too late for an epidural.

01:17 And I'm like, no.

01:19 In Brazil, the C-section rate is 93%.

01:22 Well, they're going to schedule it around their manicure,

01:24 and their pedicure, and their hair appointment.

01:25 I'm not joking.

01:26 1980, insurance companies insisted

01:29 that people do VBACs.

01:30 VBAC, VBAC, VBAC.

01:32 Then all of a sudden, no VBAC.

01:34 We went to my first appointment, and I said,

01:36 I'd like to VBAC.

01:37 And he looked at me, and he said, absolutely not.

01:39 Really makes you want to investigate.

01:42 How could people have let this happen?

01:45 The best way to stay empowered is

01:48 to avoid an unnecessary induction.

01:50 The presence of doulas using water during labor,

01:53 these things have been scientifically shown

01:55 to generate better outcomes.

01:58 My husband wasn't quite willing to go for the home birth.

02:01 We're lucky in that we live in New York City,

02:03 and there's a middle way.

02:04 It just keeps getting bigger.

02:06 That's what they do.

02:07 I want to have that experience as a woman.

02:09 I brought this life into the world, and I want to feel that.

02:13 There's no question about who had my baby.

02:15 I had my baby.

02:16 No one delivered my baby.

02:18 I delivered my baby.

02:19 You get to actually look at yourself and go, wow.

02:22 Look what I can do.

02:24 It's a woman's right to make that decision of how she's

02:28 going to give birth to her child.

02:29 And it's also her right to have the information available,

02:33 so she can make a conscious decision coming

02:35 from a place of awareness and not a place of fear.

02:40 Doulas do not deliver babies.

02:42 No, no, no.

02:42 The moms deliver babies.

02:43 The moms deliver babies.

02:44 The midwives.

02:45 Nobody delivers babies.

02:46 Pizzas are delivered.

02:48 The women birth babies.

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