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Plot Summary
From Producers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein comes the newest film about our miraculous mothers… Pregnant bodies are easy for society to accommodate. What follows birth is a different, messier story. With a wide range of frank, revealing and often hilarious interviews, this critically acclaimed documentary follows the lives of breastfeeding women from all walks of life and the experts who guide them through this nurturing process. It’s all on the table as they address the many facts, questions, misconceptions and taboos surrounding breast milk and what we feed our babies.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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75%- Reviews Counted: 12
- Fresh: 9
- Rotten: 3
- Average Rating: 6.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Variously confronting sexual and financial worries, lack of maternity leave and performance anxiety, the women transform a seemingly simple act of mothering into a complex diary of daily challenges.
Fresh: Dana Ben-Ari's gently affecting and insightful documentary achieves a remarkable intimacy with its subjects.
Fresh: Audiences will find themselves face to face with their own prejudices, assumptions and, perhaps, squeamishness.
Rotten: Images of newborns fumbling to feed bear witness to its importance. But the film's myopic style limits its impact.
Customer Reviews
fascinating!
what an eye-opening and important doc! with all the conversation these days about how our society views women who breastfeed (or ignores them!) this movie compliments and furthers that dialogue with an unbiased and fun approach. definitely a must see for any parent or parent to be!
Real issues, but missing focus
I was looking forward to watching this doc for months. As a new mama who struggled with breastfeeding like Colleen, I was hoping to get a better perspective on the realities of breastfeeding and its role in society.
Unfortunately, the documentary squanders the opportunity to tell the real stories behind breastfeeding. There was virtually no crying. There were no arguments at 3 am because the baby is hungry and everyone is exhausted and breastfeeding is not working out. Most of the tough moments were discussions that were not realized on screen. I often lost track of all of the characters. I realize that Dana Ben-Ari was trying to cover as much ground as possible, but in the process, she lost focus. While this film focuses on mothers from different backgrounds, it misses most of the heartache and frustration that can come with being the main (or partial) provider of sustenance for another human being.
This film is not as indispensable as The Business of Being Born, but it does present some of the real life difficulties of breastfeeding.
No help
This film shows how moms don't meet their breastfeeding goals, without helping the moms and without explaining to he audience how to avoid or overcome the Booby Traps they experienced.
The one star is for the mom who found the support she needed from La Leche League. She not just met but exceeded her goals.
