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Hey Ina May, thank you for writing your own guidebook on childbirth. I think that if everybody read your book then they would also see how flawed the hospitals are and start using midwives. For me personally I've learned so much about how birth works and how it is connected with everything around us. The idea that reading positive birth stories is excellent and must definitely help change the mind set that woman have of birth being painful and horrid. 

In the last part of the book you described how the hospitals aren't really doing the right things for child birth. Unnecessary cesarean section surgery, unnecessary epidurals and other drugs, wrong positioning for the woman, and the list goes on. Sometimes these procedures may be necessary but not most of the time. Treating child birth almost like its nothing which for the doctor it isn't but for the woman giving birth it may be the most important thing of their life."The FDA banned DES for use in regnant woman in 1971, after it was found to be the cause of rare vaginal cancers in young women as well as genital abnormalities in both young women and men whose mothers were given the drug." (280) Knowing this why does the U.S. still continue to use unnatural products on the mother? Maybe in 20 years from now all people who got an epidural or were born by a mother who used it will have get a rare cancer as well. It just doesn't make sense, people are dying because the doctor is too busy to stick around for the whole day with his patient if needed. "One of the greatest influences on what happens to you during labor (especially as this relates to medical interventions, procedures, and medications) depends on whom you choose to be your caregiver." (305) If this not so difficult decision can make the difference between being strapped to a bed and cut into for extra money or having a birth that will connect a child and mother forever then why do so many woman not know? How is it possible that the public is so hidden from the truth that they cant make a decision like that? Of corse there are some exceptions for people who may need to go to a OBGYN but the other Americans need to wake up.

This book was very well formatted and interesting as a student to read. But as a normal teenage guy I don't think that I would ever pick this book off a shelf. The book doesn't need to be made better as much as who its targeted to. Pregnant woman are what it is targeted to and the most important but in order for an action like this to take real affect everybody needs to know about it. If everybody knew how wrong our system really is they would be astonished maybe even ashamed of letting this happen. As bad as that sounds it's how to start a revolution. Maybe even get on television to really let the true American know.