AWOB First Draft [outline]

Thesis: The true american way of birth is the natural birth and homebirths where there are the help from midwive and no interventions being used.

Arguments:

(Can be with the hospital versus midwife homebirth) Explanation of Midwife ("mid" - with, so it's someone with the wife)

- the midwives goes to the homes of the mothers

- A big support from the midwives

-Women in control, their wishes are respected

-Ina May and how she brought back midwives and the "Farm"

Hospital birth versus midwife homebirth

Evidence: -Cost between the two (hospital - $12,000-13,000)

 - How many percent of mortality rate and the number of c-sections (because ofthe interventions' risks happens and the positions the mother have to stay, making the labor harder and leading to c-sections)  between the two (Business of Being Born movie)

- How the hospital alienates the mother versus the care the midwives give to the mothers

-How the hospital sees birth as versus how the mothers and midwives see birth as: midwives see it as "life altering experience", and mothers biggest moment ever because they have never experience such moment) (The doctors leaves quickly and the baby gets taken away. it's the doctor's convenience and strapping the mothers' for the doctor's benefit to see better.)

Mother's perspectives of the birth

- Ina May's Guide to childbirth quotes

- The guest speakers - Kaitlyn, Janet Plaza, and Sharon(?)