Well, I tried to watch a movie during early contractions to distract myself, and of course, I turned on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Little did I know, the first scene involves a husband coming home to his wife who has died in childbirth and discovering a baby who is deformed (he then tries to run away and throw the baby in the river). Well, needless to say, I turned that movie off right away, but I was interested in the F. Scott Fitzgerald version of the story and googled it today. Here is the opening paragraph:
"As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known."
Isn't that interesting? That the original story was of a horrifying hospital birth, but the modern directors of the movie changed it to a homebirth?? Makes you think, huh?
"As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known."
Isn't that interesting? That the original story was of a horrifying hospital birth, but the modern directors of the movie changed it to a homebirth?? Makes you think, huh?
