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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: photography in an operating room?
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Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 14:07:59 EDT
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	The answer is, don't use the right  filter; use the right  room.  Go
	to a hospital with an ABC (Alternate  Birthing Center) room that has
	a window complete with  adjustable  blinds, and you can photograph a
	dark, quiet, natural birth by natural light.

Often you don't HAVE a choice of hospitals.  Once you've picked your doctor,
you're probably stuck with the hospital that doctor has admitting privs. to.

Most hospitals these days have birthing rooms (which are what you'd find at
an ABC) - you can ask for them and hopefully get one.  (If they are all full,
or you're a high risk case, you're stuck with the usual labor/delivery/recovery
arrangement.)  Birthing rooms are certainly a win, but there aren't enough
of them to go around yet.  Also, the minute you make plans for photographing
the whole thing by natural light, your baby will be born at 4 AM.

	Mark