I am a big fan, hearing Ricki talk about having a doula many years ago inspired me to get a doula for my third child in 2008, and it was a very satisfying experience. I am now a Doula myself and enjoy helping other women. HOWEVER...I was super excited about seeing this first part with Ina May Gaskin, but I ended up being a little disappointed. I found it to be alot about Ricki's starstruck-ness regarding her and could have had a little more meat to it. For the cost of the rental, I was hoping for a bit more. Hoping that the next 3 episodes will be more educationally slanted...Sorry, don't mean to offend, just honest opinion here.

It was so amazing to see the picture of the baby's bracelet and see the due date 10/11/11. My baby was born on 10/11/10! What a wonderful birthday present!

We just had our first baby on July 1st at a birthing center in Austin, TX. Everything went great and I have to say that watching your movie before our birth really gave us the confidence to have a wonderful birth experience. Thanks for sharing important information about the misinformation on birth that is being spread around the US. Love to you guys!

Love & Support from Romania! I am Ana Maita, a young mother of 2 and the first woman in Romania who dared to challenge the outdated and in medical system by planning and succeeding to have two absolutely glorious homebirths - unfortunately the system here is even more resistant to change than in the US but the CHANGE is coming - sisters are doing it for themselves so to speak. We have founded the NGO Mothers for Mothers and we are making our voices heard loud and clear! We are happy to support your project as your work has been a true inspiration for us!

I'm so excited to be a supporter of this amazing project. I'm a birth and postpartum doula and hope to be a homebirth midwife one day. I've had two wonderful home waterbirths as well. I tell everyone I know about The Business of Being Born and I'm extremely excited for these next 4 films. You really are reaching so many women (and men too). I just had my 19 year old sister watch The Business of Being Born and she thanked me and told me she loved it and that it totally changed the way she thought about birth. She said that when the time comes for her to have kids, she wants to do it at home naturally! It's so great to educate young women on their choices way before they even think about having kids. Before your film, the only births my sister had seen were the ones on tv that consist primarily of women getting epidurals, being hooked up to tons of machines, having every intervention in the book, and pushing on their back. They need to know that this is not the only way to bring a baby into the world. I can't wait till October and I'd love to show the films to all my friends and moms in my weekly playgroup. Congrats on reaching your goal and beyond!

I'm so happy to be a part of this. Ricki and Abby, your work to spread the word educating women about their birth choices is so important. Thank you for making More Business of Being Born. Like so many others have commented, watching your film changed my life. It's what flipped that switch, that turning point in my pregnancy when I went from having my head in the sand, scared and blindly "trusting my doctor," to questioning typical hospital birth, finding out what other options I had, and eventually choosing a natural, unmedicated hospital birth. Now that I've had that experience, it will be easy for me to plan my next birth at home, but for the rest of the American women, pregnant for the first time, or still with their heads in the sand, we desperately need more mainstream sources for this information! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

As a midwife in Houston, TX, I have tried many ways to spread the word about choices in birth. You have done more than anyone to keep the homebirth option alive.

God Bless You, Ricki & Abby!
~Chris Duffy, LM

This is great. My wife and I are just starting to think about having kids so I'm really interested to learn through these new DVDs. Haven't seen the original either, so I just ordered a copy.

I am ecstatic!! This is awesome!! I'm a doula, pregnancy massage therapist & a childbirth educator and I can't wait to see how these dvds get peoples minds start spinning about their own births! Thank you so much for being such a huge part of getting the birthing pendulum to start swinging back to the natural way it's supposed to be!

I had a c-section for breech with my first and then an awesome, easy Hypnobabies VBAC (after successful ECV) with my second two years ago. I am now a doula and a Hypnobabies Instructor. It shouldn't be such a struggle to get true VBAC support, or at the very least , an accurate discussion of the risks.
http://cairomama.blogspot.com/2010/03/evas-birth-story-one-year-later-long.html

does anyone know if I can "buy" two of the same thing? I want to make a pledge in honor of someone else, with them being the recipient of the schwag.

WOO HOO! So awesome. I can't wait to see this project in its completion! Way to go EVERYONE!

Great! I can't wait to see more :)

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Ditto! I did it both ways. My first child I didn't know any better and had a awful experience with all the monitors and drugs to go with it. My second I took control because I knew there had to be a better way. I did it with naturally with my Husband, Midwife, and Doula at my side, and had the most amazing and beautiful experience of my life!!! Women across this nation are having that taken away from them and it is sad to think about. Congrats and Thank You for everything you have done in this movement!!!

Woo hoo! I've never been so happy to know that my bank account is going to be quite a bit lighter here soon! Congratulations!!!

Wah-hoo!!

off I go to a birth and come back to find another baby on the way!!!!!! I mean MBOBB of course. Congrats for surpassing your goal!! I can't wait for MBOBB.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Sweet success!!!

SO glad to see this funded! BOBB helped change mine & my husbands view on homebirth. Our 3rd daughter was born at home in the water!

hurrayyyyyyy!!!

Woo hoo! Heck yeah!

Hooray!!!!!

Yeah! did it!

Thank you guys for doing this. So so important. I have it posted all over www.thegreenmama.com. I had my first baby at home in Chicago. As a writer and researcher, I started writing about the medicalization of birth and lack of options in that state. Then I met Jennifer Block and then you guys. Last year I had my second baby at home in Canada. Here doing it at home is much easier and more accepted, yet still over 30% of women are having cesareans. I realize that as a culture in this country we are giving up our idea that women should have options around birth and that birth matters. Thank you for helping change the culture. It really really matters and you are really making a difference!

Just upped my pledge! Can't wait to see my name in the credits! ;)

Before I watched The Business of Being Born I was incredibly ignorant about the whole birth process. I thought that I was *supposed* to get an epidural and just get the whole awful thing over with. Thanks to the film and website, my doula Giuditta, the nurse midwives at UCLA Ronald Reagan, my husband Sean, and of course my son Ripley, we had a wonderful and natural experience. Next time, if there is one, I plan to do it at home! I am thrilled that you are continuing your good work in educating and supporting mothers and families.

The Business of Born changed the way I saw pregnancy and birth. It first introduced me to the idea of a water birth, and ultimately led to me finding a midwife and planning an out of hospital birth. My labor was empowering and life changing. Thank you so much for showing me another way.

Valley Birthplace & Woman Care is proud to support More BoBB!

BoBB absolutely changed my life, and changed my children's lives as well. Thank you so much for making MORE BoBB.

BOBB changed my life! Dramatic but true. I felt so empowered when I gave birth, naturally, in a hospital. I'm passionate that other women can learn what's possible about their bodies & their babies and BOBB is a fantastic film to help educate people. I'm now a doula and I give all my clients & friends a copy to watch to help them in their process. You guys have done such an amazing job - Thank you!!!

I will share all that I can to help you reach your goal in the week remaining. This is some of the most important work women in this country can be doing and I am so proud of you for opening eyes. This is what our bodies were made for!

My best friend turned me on to the BoBB when my husband and I decided we wanted a child. I am so excited about the new DVD's as we are now trying to conceive baby #1 and we really want to have a natural home birth. I think this project is so important in the education of home birthing and midwifery. I am a die hard homeopathic who is always looking for the "natural way" of things and this has just fit in so well with our lifestyle and way of thinking! I sincerely hope that the goal is met so this information can be made available! Best of luck and keep up the great work!

Thank you so much for BOBB! You have helped me help women and my pledge stands whether or not you meet your goal! I only wish I could give more! Love, Love and more Love to you both!

BOBB changed my life. Unfortunately like Abby I did not have the natural birth we wanted, but I have so much knowledge and hope to share that with others. I wish this would be a part of all sex ed classes in America. Go forth, Abby and Ricki and change our world! Bless you both!

The BOBB was instrumental in showing me exactly what kind of birth I wanted. I am a proud mother of a 4 month old baby boy. He was born at home with a midwife. I remember when I was going through transition recalling the words of Cara, Ricki and all the women you filmed. I just kept thinking "they did it and so can I". I achieved the birth I wanted for myself and my baby thanks to you and your work! I can't wait to see more.

I am thrilled you are expanding this amazing project. I hope it continues to open eyes and encourage people to ask questions. One day I hope you can broaden your scope and look at the reality of birthing in third world countries where 358,000 mothers and more than 800,000 newborns die, and an estimated 1.2 million babies are stillborn each year because of a lack of midwives and an absence of doctors.

I'm holding my new son as I type this (new one handed talent) and I am a BOBB Backer. I found the first film essential to my birth plan. "Essential" doesn't even say enough...I was able to take a stand, armed with knowledge and give my son the best, healthiest start to life. I have so much hope for this project and will spread the word.

How can nearly 9800 people "Like" this on FB, yet only 935 people have backed it?? Come on, folks! Give a few bucks!!

My husband and I love love love BOBB. It was such a great film to see when I was pregnant to really shed some light on what kinds of things can happen when you give birth in a hospital. In the end, we switched to an amazing birth center and I got the birth experience that I always wanted :-) Thank you!!!!

Wow! A jump of $20K since I last checked in, I am hopeful you'll be at 100K in less than the 7 days remaining. Great job

Glad to hear that you're adding to the collection. I saw BoBB when I was 5 weeks pregnant and it kickstarted a huge change in my views on laboring and birth and drove me to commit myself to doing things on my terms. In March I delivered a healthy, happy kiddo using hypnobirthing methods and no interventions. Thank you!

I only wish it could be more! Thank you for all you do.

Thank you guys for starting this whole journey! I truly hope you are able to finish this project as it is so very important that women know their options and have an easily accessible way to help them learn about those options. I know I wouldn't be here today wondering about my own options if it weren't for seeing BOBB, so I cannot thank you enough. =] I'm spreading the word! Good luck!

I just saw he even put it under his name : )

My husband snuck on here and pledged for a birthday gift to me! Most romantic gift ever as this is the thing I am the MOST passionate about. Cannot wait to see this!!!!!!!!!!! 2 natural childbirths in the hospital, and having the 3rd at home.