Oh but TV birth scenes are horrible. I thought I was going to get through this one in St. Elsewhere, because hello,  guest star Robert Picardo! But purple pushing, episiotomy, baby in need of resuscitation and the doctor not telling the parents what was going on…it was all too much so I changed the channel for a little bit. When somebody who respects women and knows something about empowered birth (ooh, maybe, you know, A WOMAN) gets a different kind of birth scene on the air, the world won’t know what hit it. And I won’t change the channel.

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