knowthesecretwell

I am not very computer literate, please help me Apple nerds. Some DVDs will play on the player and some will not. I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and using the DVD Player that came loaded on the computer. I just want to play his Sword in the Stone movie. It is not a Blue Ray, but when I put the disk in it says "Supported Disk Not Available" and it does this on some of his other movies too. Do I need another type of player or is it the hardware I have on my Mac?

Statistics show that having a baby at home no more than 15 minutes from a hospital is the absolute safest way to give birth, so why don't more women take that option? The United States has a horrible infant and maternal mortality rate compared to all other industrialized nations, and those countries who use midwifery and home birth as their standard have great outcomes, but women still flock to the hospital where they have a 33% chance of having their child sliced out of them instead of actually giving birth the way nature intended. Why?

Shouldn't we save the hospitals for high risk women and women who end up with complications and actually NEED the hospital.

OB/GYNs are surgeons, midwives deliver babies. Midwives have so much more birth experience than doctors, but are not respected as much when it comes to their knowledge, doesn't that sound backwards?

Why do people feel so much safer in a hospital when statistics show the exact opposite. The people that go to the hospital are sick, why would you want to have a baby there with a bunch of deathly ill people around?

When I planned for my homebirth the one thing people would ALWAYS ask me was "what if something happens?" My answer was always the same, we'll either go to the hospital or call 911. Not to mention my midwife is completely trained on how to handle all types of emergencies & see problems before they become emergencies. True birth emergencies are extremely rare in low risk women, but they continue to take much more risk by thinking they are safer in the hospital.

Do you feel this way because you just didn't know you had that option, or because that's just they way people do things today? I'd really like to know.