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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER RICKI LAKE AND FILMMAKER ABBY EPSTEIN DELIVER A POWERFUL FOLLOW-UP TO THEIR LANDMARK DOCUMENTARY THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN

MORE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN

FIRST FILM AVAILBLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON AUGUST 30, 2011

Featuring Poignant Birth Stories from Stars Including

ALANIS MORISSETTE, GISELE BUNDCHEN, CHRISTY TURLINGTON-BURNS, CINDY CRAWFORD, MOLLY RINGWALD, LAILA ALI, KIMBERLY WILLIAMS-PAISLEY and MELISSA JOAN HART, Four Part Series Available Exclusively Online For a Limited Time

Pre-Ordering Available Now at www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com

LOS ANGELES, CA (August 29, 2011) – Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary, The Business of Being Born, with an all-new, four-part DVD series that continues their provocative and entertaining exploration of the modern maternity care system.  More Business of Being Born offers a practical look at birthing options as well as poignant celebrity birth stories from stars including Alanis Morissette, Gisele Bundchen, Christy Turlington-Burns, Cindy Crawford, Molly Ringwald, Laila Ali, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Melissa Joan Hart.

Beginning August 30, 2011, the four-part series can be viewed as an online streaming rental at www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com.  Renters will be able to view the compelling documentary for a limited time before it is available to own.  The rental schedule is as follows:

August 30 –  September 12, 2011: Down on The Farm: Conversations with Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin

Follow Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Director Abby Epstein to The Farm Commune in Summertown, Tennessee, where pioneer midwife Ina May Gaskin talks candidly about the latest birth trends.  Gaskin, who was featured in the original The Business of Being Born, sparked Lake’s initial interest in home birth and has continued to inspire the filmmaking duo’s advocacy efforts.  Also on the journey is pregnant actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who joins them in getting to know The Farm’s famous midwives and touring the picturesque birth cabins situated in the woods.  Bonus features on the DVD include additional interviews with Gaskin, Williams-Paisley’s emotional birth stories and a conversation with Christy Turlington-Burns about her shared passion for improving maternal mortality.

September 13 – September 26, 2011: Special Deliveries: Celebrity Mothers Talk Straight on Birth

Featuring celebrity moms Laila Ali, Gisele Bundchen, Cindy Crawford, Alyson Hannigan, Melissa Joan Hart, Kellie Martin, Alanis Morissette, Christy Turlington-Burns and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Special Deliveries provides collected stories from a group fearless mothers.  Their riveting testimonies speak to the power of the birth experience, whether they worked with midwives and/or obstetricians.  They trusted their bodies and intuitions, taking control and trusting themselves instead of following “the experts” blindly.  None of these courageous women has ever spoken on the record in such compelling detail, and, on this DVD, the filmmakers weave together these passionate narratives as a celebration of the journey to motherhood that will leave viewers with a renewed sense of amazement about the power of women.

September 27 – October 10, 2011: Explore Your Options: Doulas, Birth Centers & C-Sections

This essential DVD offers birth-planning guidance around key topics such as the role of doulas (labor support specialists,) the advantages of birth centers and the alarming escalation of cesarean sections in the United States and Brazil.  Epstein and Lake talk to doulas about why their profession is currently booming and uncover why having a good doula can make-or-break the entire birth experience.  They look at the ever-growing rates of c-sections, which have reached 50% in many US hospitals and more than 99% in some private hospitals in Brazil.  How “safe” are these cesarean surgeries, and what are the health implications for the mothers and babies?  Explore Your Options also looks at the option to deliver in a birth center as a middle ground between the home and the hospital.  Special features on this informative DVD include stars Alanis Morissette and Alyson Hannigan on the advantages of doulas, Christy Turlington Burns on her unexpected complications at a birth center, Molly Ringwald on how she avoided a cesarean birth with her twins and Gisele Bundchen and Michelle Alves on the cesarean epidemic in their native Brazil.

October 11 – October 24, 2011: The VBAC Dilemma: What Your Options Really Are

The VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) has become a hot-button issue in the modern maternity care system, as one in three new mothers will give birth via cesarean section.  Are all of these mothers then forced to undergo a repeat cesarean the next time around?  Epstein and Lake posed that question to dozens of experts, determining the surprising truth about VBACs.  They also follow several women’s stories – both those who succeed and fail at attempting a VBAC – including that of filmmaker Abby Epstein, whose first c-section delivery was depicted in the dramatic, final moments of The Business of Being Born.

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ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN

Inspired by their own unique birth experiences, Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Director Abby Epstein teamed up in 2007 to provide a nation of mothers-to-be with insight into the process of childbirth and the various options available when preparing for life’s most special event.  From pregnancy to the miraculous moment of birth, The Business of Being Born continues to be an entertaining and informative celebration of the road to motherhood that “should be seen by every pregnant woman in America” (Jack Mathews, New York Daily News).

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