Can't wait. Should be interesting. How was Ina May. How many came.
I know Kathy was concerned about the #'s.
On Oct 8, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Melissa Creighton wrote:

> I recently read this posting on another doula group about a new
> birth television series on the Discovery Channel focusing on midwife-
> assisted births.  Being aired in our area October 10th.  Hope it's
> good!
>
> Melissa Creighton
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> "Dear Friends,
>
> If you haven't heard yet, Discovery Health Channel is now airing a
> Reality Show set in Shari Daniels' Miami Maternity Center.  Read on.
>
> From Miami Herald, October 1st, 2005
> TELEVISION: MIAMI MIDWIVES GET REALITY SHOW
>
> Miami plastic surgeons and tattoo artists have been featured on the
> small screen. Now you can add midwives to the list.
>
> Discovery Health Channel is launching previews of its new 26-episode
> series House of Babies this month and next. Filmed at the Miami
> Maternity Center, the series will depict the joys and drama of
> midwife-assisted natural childbirth.
>
> ''Our hope is that the series will prompt more areas to set up birth
> centers and that doctors will look at midwifery as a normal option,''
> said Shari Daniels, director of the center.
>
> Tamara Taitt, recently graduated Student Midwife in Miami, wrote to
> me:
> "I don't have to tell you all what implications this has on a local
> and national level and how much this can do for midwifery. We all
> know many pregnant women are obssessed with TV shows about labor and
> birth. As a student I loved watching them too (until I knew better).
> Of course it's Discovery Health and it's a birth related show, so of
> course some things if not many things are going to be dramatized,
> but how many women all over the country will see this show and
> think - where can I have a birth like that? The show has already
> started airing and it airs in the PERFECT spot, right after Birth
> Day early in the morning, at midday and then early afternoon (yes 6
> times in the same day, 2 different episodes). Topics already covered
> or scheduled to be covered - VBACs, Waterbirth, The Moon & Its
> Impact on birthing. . I've got to say whatever ones feelings are
> about reality TV ... this is an amazing thing."
>
> This show airs on Discovery Health Channel. Go to
> http://health.discovery.com/  and search for "House of Babies" to
> find out just when each show is airing."
>
> Sincerely,
> Susan Hodges "gatekeeper"
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