DVD 2: Special Deliveries: Celebrity Mothers Talk Straight on Birth
While engaging, the second DVD in the series resonated the least with me. It featured the labor and delivery stories of several celebrities, all of whom at one point or another expressed that their experience giving birth was "indescribable," yet then went forth to describe it in detail. (I know what they mean, as I can attest that childbirth is indeed indescribable), but I saw no need for the women speaking to be famous, and would have been just as captivated listening to any woman speak about her experience, which was more the case in the first film, The Business of Being Born. Of the actresses, models and musicians interviewed here, I connected the most with the stories told by Alanis Morissette and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Morisette was insightful, funny and extremely honest and relatable, and Williams-Paisley gave a tearful account of how her dream of a home birth turned into a C-section in the hospital -- a situation no doubt many women experience. Her strength and good attitude were inspiring.
