Only One Kind of Baby Story?

I sent the following letter to Discovery Communications, parent company of the TLC cable network, which airs the show A Baby Story on daytime television.

To the producers of A Baby Story, Discovery, and TLC:

I have been watching A Baby Story since my late teens and always enjoyed the stories of little miracles coming into this world. Now, I am a 29-year-old married mother of two and my views have changed because of my own birth experiences. It seems as though everytime I turn on A Baby Story, the birth is a cesarean section or medicated birth. I would love to see more families choosing midwifery care, doulas, homebirth and/or other natural birthing methods featured on your program. There is more than one way to come into the world and all should be equally featured. Women need to know that they have a choice of caregiver and birth place and that pain medication and interventions do not need to be the norm. Women have been birthing for centuries. Birth is a natural process not a medical event. Please use your program as a platform to help women and their families feel educated and empowered. Informed choice is important for every woman's birth and for each individual's healthcare.

For more information on alternatives in birthing, please visit the following websites:

http://ican-online.org/
http://cfmidwifery.org/
http://www.motherfriendly.org/
http://www.childbirthconnection.org/home.asp
www.canadianmidwives.org/
http://www.birthcenters.org/
http://www.midwife.org/index.cfm
http://www.nacpm.org/
http://www.dona.org/
http://www.freewebs.com/womb

Sincerely,

Michelle Rimmel-Maisonville
WOMB

To join us in the effort to add more examples of choice in childbirth to the media, please visit http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations to send your own comments to Discovery Communications.