Orgasmic Birth

Join us as we explore how to prepare consciously for postpartum care with Christine Eck's insight and wisdom. We will discuss how to create a safety net through communication with partners, researching resources on postpartum care, and exploring nourishing foods, music, and smells that make us feel safe. We will also explore different ways caregivers can acknowledge and honor the shift into parenthood, such as through ceremonies, rituals, self-massage with warm oils, breathing practices, and writing. Plus, we will dive into Christine's experience of how to support families during the sacred window of time, providing comfort and basic needs, offering advice and information, and making sure partners feel supported.

Christine Eck, founder, and director of the Center for Sacred Windows Studies, is a passionate advocate for social awareness and change in postpartum care. She is a mother to four children, an Ayurvedic Health Consultant, a Birth and Postpartum Doula, an educator, a speaker, an organizer, a caregiver, and a group facilitator.

In this episode:

• Christine Eck is joining to offer important information on how to prepare for a conscious postpartum care

• Christine's mission is to empower professionals in postpartum care and families with information and tools in creating the support needed

• During pregnancy, people should think about who will be in their circle of care, where to get food from, and how to take care of themselves.

• "Kaya Kalpa" window is a Sanskrit term for a sacred window of time where we can reset our bodies and prepare for renewal.

• She discovered Ayurveda which gave her a roadmap to help her recover during the first six weeks

Key Takeaways:

• We can create our own window of care whenever we need it

• It's important to look inside and identify what makes us feel nourished (e.g., food, music, smells)

• Having an emotional and psychological safety net is key before considering postpartum foods and routines

• Inviting individuals to find what makes them feel sacred and create a ceremony or ritual that reflects this

• Partners have an important role to play in the postpartum period, including providing comfort and support

• Gathering helpers and creating preparedness ahead of time can be life changing

Tweetable Quotes:

"And there are a million different ways, depending on who we are and what makes us feel cared for, that we can really give back to ourselves after the amazing work that we've done." - Christine Eck

Connect with Christine!

Facebook, LinkedIn

Website: https://sacredwindowstudies.com/

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to Positively Prepare for birth and parenting

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

Host Debra Pascali-Bonaro examines the overuse of epidurals and explores its impact on people's chances to experience a pleasurable orgasmic birth. She encourages listeners to be aware of their options when it comes to epidurals - understanding both the benefits and risks associated with using one. This conversation provides tips on oxytocin enhancers and other techniques to manage pain during childbirth. Debra also discusses how hospitals often use language that can create fear or anxiety around birth, which can lead to unnecessary medical interventions.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about how you can have an empowered and pleasurable birthing experience!

In this episode:

• The importance to know all options, benefits, risks, alternatives and intuition before making an informed decision about epidural

• Exploring Pain vs Suffering in the Hospital

• Understanding how comfort measures can provide calm and comfort in labor

• How to create a code word for when an epidural is offered

• Penny Simkin's Pain Medication Preference Scale helps to understand preferences

• Evidence-basedbirth.com provides resources on pain management during labor and birth

Key Takeaways:

• Epidurals can be a valuable tool, but overuse is putting people at risk and decreasing their chance of having a pleasurable orgasmic birth

• Epidurals typically slow labor and create a hormonal gap

• Pain is not a descriptor for many people, but in hospitals it is

• The language and environment of hospitals can create pain

• Pain and suffering are different; one can exist without the other

Tweetable Quotes:

"No one should suffer in childbirth. But by having someone there and now personalizing that we need to justify the budget it's now a personal thing." - Debra Pascali-Bonaro

"Pain can be a normal part of labor. It's giving you the messages. When you listen to your body and listen to your baby, you'll be able to feel if you get in one position that feels better that's often leaning forward and moving." - Debra Pascali-Bonaro

Connect with Debra!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrgasmicBirth

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OrgasmicBirth1

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orgasmicbirth

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to Positively Prepare for birth and parenting

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world: https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/the-film/

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

This episode of the Orgasmic Birth podcast dives deep into the power of pleasure during pregnancy and childbirth. In this episode, Erika Alsborn shares her powerful story of giving birth which was marked by intense sensations and an altered state of mind. Through her own healing journey and experience with birthing her first child, Erika has realized how transformative childbirth can be. This conversation explores the taboo shame surrounding sexual pleasure in childbirth along with the lack of good sexual education that has led to elements of pleasure being lost.

Erika Alsborn is a leading sex and birth coach in Sweden who specializes in helping women reclaim their pleasure, sensual delight, and sexual confidence. Her personal journey of sexual healing and growth motivated her to switch from nursing to sexual health. After giving birth to her first child in 2019, she recognized the profound impact childbirth can have and now collaborates with women to help them prepare for a gratifying, confident, and orgasmic birthing process.

Tune in now for an intimate conversation about reclaiming our right to pleasurable experiences during pregnancy and childbirth!

Pleasurable Birth Essentials:Transform Pain to Power provides a unique blend of sexy scientific knowledge, engaging activities, birth stories, and expert guidance to lead you to unlocking your inner power and your innate pleasure. Do you want to give birth easily with less pain and more pleasure? Click this link!

In this episode:

• The speaker shares her own sexual healing and expansion journey that helped her career shift from nursing to working with sexual health
• Erika explains how she used breathing and sounding techniques to both tolerate and transform the sensations into pleasure, creating a sacred and orgasmic experience
• She felt a deep connection to her body, baby, and the process, surrendering to her body's power and trusting in her own strength
• Listeners will learn about using visualization to create a portal for an easy and gentle birthing experience as well as how to engage in pleasure practices to envision themselves as a birthing sexual pleasure goddess
• Erika shares practical advice on how exploring sensuality and deepening connections with one's senses can bring greater pleasure into everyday life as well as help foster a deeper connection with the body throughout pregnancy and birth

Key Takeaways:

• Use vision visualization and have lots of sex to prepare for labor
• Use pleasure and sensuality to give birth
• Work on the mental piece: identifying limiting belief systems, shifting negative emotions, emphasizing positive emotions
• Sexual pleasure can be a guiding light during pregnancy and birth
• Maintaining a sense of sexual identity after giving birth is important

"You don't give birth with your brain. You don't give birth through thoughts. You give birth through your body." - Erika Alsborn

"I confessed to myself this is not good. And it was like a make it or break it point for me. And luckily I decided to not bury my sexuality and assume the identity of asexual and instead I decided to do something about it." - Erika Alsborn

Connect with Erika!

Instagram, Facebook

Website: https://www.erikaalsborn.com/sex-coaching

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrgasmicBirth

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OrgasmicBirth1

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orgasmicbirth

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to Positively Prepare for birth and parenting

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

In today's episode of the Orgasmic Birth podcast, we dive into the beautiful and transformative experience of childbirth. Guest Sabreena Colon shares her empowering story of preparing for a natural birth. At the same time, she talks about connecting with herself, trusting her body and baby, and finding comfort in knowledge. The speaker describes her experience giving birth, her various stages of labor, and how she felt supported by her family and midwife, ultimately experiencing a sense of bliss during contractions. Sabreena shares her experience of an orgasmic birth that she describes as pure magic, and is here to encourage other moms-to-be to trust themselves and their bodies. Tune in, and let's break down the barriers to pleasure in childbirth and parenting together!

In this episode:

• Sabreena researched extensively during her first pregnancy, connecting with other women's stories and videos to trust herself, her body, and her baby.
• In this episode, Sabreena shares her experience of having an orgasmic birth which was pure magic full of pleasure.
• Discover how the intensity of contractions can be blissful and pleasurable.
• She emphasizes being intentional with how you want to feel during your birthing journey, alongside creating an environment that supports you with all necessary resources.
• Sabreena talks about involving her two-year-old son in the birth process, helping him feel comfortable and empowered.

Key Takeaways:

• Focus on self-connection, support, and love.
• Love and trust in ourselves and our bodies are very important during birth.
• Therapy helps prepare for birth and focuses on self-connection, support, and love.
• Involving children in birth can empower them and allow them to witness a beautiful, healthy, natural birth.

Tweetable Quotes:

"I really wanted to just feel surrounded by love. I wanted...to feel unconditionally loved and unconditionally supported. Nothing else about the birth matters. If I can feel those things, it'll be magic."- Sabreena Colon

"I think it's important to be intentional with how you want to feel. The environment that you wanna create and the support that you want." - Sabreena Colon

"Connecting with all of the women out there just through their birth stories and videos really made me realize, first and foremost, I have to connect with myself, trust myself, my body, and my baby because that's what carried a lot of women through was just the trust and the connection with themselves."- Sabreena Colon

Connect with Sabreena!

@sabreenacolon

Connect with Debra!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrgasmicBirth

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/OrgasmicBirth1

Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@orgasmicbirth

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to Positively Prepare for birth and parenting

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

Preparing for conception, pregnancy, and birth, is both a time of joy for many and also can be filled with challenges and, for some, losses. Many women and birthing people suffer in silence rather than having loving compassionate care. My guest today is here to share her joyful births and how caring and companioning can help people heal and find resilience and, in time, their joy again.

Naima (Niema) Beckles is an educator, consultant, doula, and founding director of For Your Birth. She trains birth workers, creates programming for maternal health organizations, and serves as a board member for Lamaze International. A published author and media contributor, Naima has also developed a specialty expertise in healing related to pregnancy loss. She is here to talk with us today about Joy, Power, and Companioning Challenges.

Join our guest Naima Beckles sharing her journey to becoming a doula, her experience with joyful birth, and the importance of sharing positive birth experiences along with the challenges of learning from them. The conversation also revolves around the importance of support during pregnancy and birth, especially in cases of emergency interventions or losses.

Tune in to this informative episode for an insightful conversation about childbirth and parenting!

In this episode:

• The importance of feeling good and confident in their healthcare provider.
• Safety concerns around home birth and importance of qualified midwives
• The speaker downplayed her positive birth experience to avoid making others feel bad.
• Home birth experience with posterior facing baby, long pushing, and no stitches needed.
• Naima shares her personal experiences with pregnancy loss and abortion
• They emphasize the importance of having supportive midwives and companions during these experiences
• The importance of compassionate presence when supporting people experiencing pregnancy loss.

Key Takeaways:

• Compassionate presence is key to holding space for grief and creating a container for expression.
• Preparing for conception, pregnancy, and birth is both a time of joy and, for many, also filled with challenges.
• It is important to share challenges but also joys in birth stories.
• Taking care of oneself and having support networks is necessary to avoid depletion when supporting others.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "If all that we think and all that we've been told is that birth will be traumatic, will be terrible, will be over medicalized, then we don't have anything else to aspire to." - Naima Beckles
• "My tip is just about presence and like getting just like recognizing the moment that you're in, and savoring it, and following your breath, and taking that into your labor and into your early parenting and beyond."- Naima Beckles

Connect with Naima!

Website: https://www.foryourbirth.com/

Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn

Substack: Birthwerk

Connect with Debra!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debra.pascalibonaro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to have fulfilling and enjoyable

births.

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the

world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

Have you thought about how the way you give birth impacts the good bacteria you provide to start off your baby's immune system? Have you heard about the microbiome and why it is so important? My guest today has important information for you to consider about Birth and the Microbiome.

Toni Harman is a filmmaker, author, course creator, and champion of the microbiome. Toni has produced and directed a number of internationally distributed documentary films, including:

MICROBIRTH - about the origins of the human microbiome

FREEDOM FOR BIRTH - about the struggle for women's rights in childbirth DOULA! - about the work of birth and postnatal doulas.

Toni's extensive research for MICROBIRTH led to her co-authoring the books THE MICROBIRTH EFFECT and YOUR BABY's MICROBIOME.

In this episode:

• Explore the impact of birth on a baby's microbiome and immune system with guest Toni Harman
• Learn about the importance of doulas, skin-to-skin contact, and breastfeeding initiation
• Discover the vital role of the microbiome in human health, particularly during birth
• Gain valuable tips on restoring and supporting gut health

Key Takeaways:

• Birth impacts a baby's microbiome and immune system, with vaginal birth providing optimal exposure to maternal microbes
• Doulas play a crucial role in supporting skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding initiation
• Embracing the messiness of birth is key for optimal microbiome seeding and feeding
• Strategies to restore and support gut health include skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, a diverse diet, and engaging with nature

Tweetable Quotes:

"I've been at birth, I've filmed birth, and it is just messy. And that is brilliant because that is the baby's exposure to gut microbes." - Toni Harman

Connect with Toni:

Website: https://microbirth.com/

Toni is also hosting a 2-day international conference on 29/30 April.

Special promotional code for our podcast listeners: Half-price tickets on this link:

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Connect with Debra!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debra.pascalibonaro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to have fulfilling and enjoyable births.

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

Join host Debra Pascali-Bonaro focuses on breaking down barriers and healing shame surrounding sexuality and childbirth. In this episode, she dispels myths around pain during childbirth, explaining that it is manageable and that there are ways to bring comfort and pleasure to the experience. The conversation encourages individuals to have open conversations with their healthcare providers about their desires for intimacy and pleasure during labor, as well as having a supportive team.

In this episode:

• Four myths about orgasmic birth debunked
• How can pain can manageable with positive preparation, support, and comfort measures
• Freedom of movement and leaning forward can enhance pleasure and oxytocin production
• How can trauma impact childbirth, and how to be prepared with a supportive team?
• It's possible to bring oxytocin and love into the birthing experience, even with interventions
• The importance of having deep conversations with providers about desires for orgasmic birth

Key Takeaways:

• Taboo shame and lack of sexual education affect intimacy in childbirth
• Self-pleasuring can provide pain relief
• Birth can be a healing opportunity
• Shame around pleasure in childbirth needs to be busted, as all sexual organs are involved in the process
• Self-stimulation, partner touch, and loving words can contribute to an orgasmic birth experience

Tweetable Quotes:

"Each birth deserves fullness of experience and feeling safe and honored" - Debra Pascali-Bonaro

"We must come together and help every woman that's preparing for birth to do it in her way to be heard, to be seen, and to create safe environments. So birth can be the fullest for every person." - Debra Pascali-Bonaro

Connect with Debra!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debra.pascalibonaro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to have fulfilling and enjoyable

births.

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the

World!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth, as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

Jessica Pin is an advocate for inclusion of detailed clitoral anatomy in medical literature and curricula, training standards for vulvar procedures, and correction of medical misinformation about vulvas. She has gotten 12 major medical textbooks, 2 top anatomy apps, and multiple online resources to update their content, and more to promise future updates. She has also published a cadaveric study with plastic surgeons, convinced OB/GYNs to publish a cadaveric study, and effected changes in OB/GYN and plastic surgery board certification, standardized consent forms, and residency curricula. She holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.

In this episode:

• Delving into the neglected role of the clitoris in childbirth and female sexual health with guest Jessica Pin
• Advocating for the inclusion of detailed clitoral anatomy in medical literature and curricula training standards for vulva procedures
• Highlighting the dehumanizing treatment of women's sexuality and the absence of discussion around pleasure in medical literature
• Emphasizing the need for increased awareness and education about the clitoris to improve patient care and recognize its importance in female sexual function and reproduction.

Key Takeaways:

• The clitoris plays a crucial role in female sexual function and overall well-being, yet is often neglected in medical education and practice
• Female sexual pleasure is important and should not be minimized or trivialized
• Medical providers often neglect physical damage to the clitoris, which can have long-term effects on a woman's sexual health
• Increased awareness and education about the clitoris is necessary to improve patient care and recognize its importance in female sexual function and reproduction

Tweetable Quotes:

"Women should advocate for themselves and help medical providers realize that it's not just a matter of hormones and psychology." - Jessica Pin

"The role of pleasure in childbirth is often overlooked, but studies suggest that it can desensitize us to pain. We need to pay more attention to the clitoris and protect it during birth and surgery." - Jessica Pin

"The clitoris has been disregarded because of taboos around female sexuality, separating reproduction from pleasure even though it doesn't make sense." - Jessica Pin

Connect with Jessica:

Social Media: Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter

Connect with Debra!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debra.pascalibonaro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to have fulfilling and enjoyable

births.

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the

world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

Barbara Harper is an internationally recognized expert on waterbirth and gentle birth. She founded Waterbirth International in 1987, with one goal in mind – to ensure that waterbirth is an "available option" for all birthing families. She has published dozens of professional articles and interviewed in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and talk shows. Her 2015 bestselling book and DVD, 'Gentle Birth Choices,' has been translated into 9 languages, including a 2016 Mandarin Chinese edition. During the past four decades Barbara has worked as an obstetric and pediatric nurse, midwife, midwifery instructor, childbirth educator, doula and doula trainer and Blissborn Hypnosis instructor and professional trainer. She has used her vast experience in maternity care to develop unique seminars which she teaches within hospitals, nursing schools, midwifery and medical schools and community groups worldwide. Prior to Covid Barbara traveled and taught in 75 countries. She is asked to return for training in hospitals yearly in many countries including China, Argentina, UAE, Israel, Spain, Mexico, Chile, and locations all over the US. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida, and currently is the Director of Education for the Bliss Birth and Wellness Center in West Palm Beach. She is a community volunteer and midwifery and doula mentor.

In this episode:

• Barbara Harper, a waterbirth expert, shares the benefits of water for labor and birth
• Barbara's interest in waterbirth began after seeing photos of women giving birth in glass tanks in Moscow
• The birth of waterbirth is explored, including personal experience and facing opposition from midwives
• Waterbirth is seen as a gift that allows for a gentler, more empowering birthing process
• The importance of changing the way we welcome babies into the world is acknowledged, including introducing waterbirth in hospitals and making it an accessible option for all

Key Takeaways:

• Waterbirth is a gentler and more empowering birthing process that allows for easier connection and release of hormones during birth.
• The journey to making waterbirth a widely accepted birthing option faced opposition from those who believed it was unnatural, including midwives.
• Barbara Harper, a waterbirth expert, became interested in waterbirth in 1983 after seeing photos of women giving birth in glass tanks in Moscow.
• Making waterbirth an accessible option for all requires motivated mothers, willing providers, and cooperative nurse managers, and acknowledging the importance of changing the way we welcome babies into the world.

Tweetable Quotes:

"It's easier for the mother to assume that upright posture to put her hands on her perineum, to guide the baby out herself. It's easier for her to connect and to release all of the 33 hormones that birthing requires." - Barbara Harper

Connect with Barbara:

Website:www.waterbirth.org

Connect with Debra!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debra.pascalibonaro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to have fulfilling and enjoyable

births.

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the

world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.

I recently saw an incredible video Anatomy of the Clitoris: Learn Integral Anatomy with Gil Hedley. I smiled, I had met Gil many years ago when he was having his children, I trained his sister as a doula and have loved following her path as she is now a midwife. Even Gils mother trained as a postpartum doula with me and we worked together for several years. So now to see his work so well describe the clitoris describing in his words 'a beautiful gift and the blessing of the clitoris', I knew I had to reach out to invite him to join me to share with you all his thoughts about the clitoris and any thoughts about the role it may play in labor and birth and his insight for an Orgasmic Birth

In this episode:

• The episode explores the clitoral complex with Gil Headley PhD, who shares his thoughts about the clitoris and its role in labor and birth
• Gil Headley's extensive knowledge of Integral Anatomy is showcased as he shares his story of discovering the clitoris and demonstrates the complex structure of the organ
• Birth can be orgasmic for some individuals due to factors like nerve distribution, pleasure potential, and habituation to pleasure
• Hospital birth practices are not conducive to orgasmic birth, and most people feel inhibited by the hospital experience, which can impact both birth and pleasure

Key Takeaways:

• The clitoris is an essential and crucial part of human anatomy that is still not well understood
• The structure of the clitoris is more complex and intricate than commonly known. There are several parts to it, including the glands, shaft, legs, and vestibular bulbs, among others
• Clitoris anatomy varies between individuals. Clitoral stimulation can be experienced through anal penetration or pressure during birth
• Habituation to certain pleasure doesn't reflect pleasure potential. Nerve distribution and position during birth can affect orgasmic birth experience

Tweetable Quotes:

"There's nothing in our body that is of of single purpose Everything is multipurpose and it's beautiful." -Gil Hedley

Connect with Gil:

Website: https://www.gilhedley.com/

Social Media: Youtube

Connect with Debra!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debra.pascalibonaro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orgasmicbirth/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-pascali-bonaro-1093471/

Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to have fulfilling and enjoyable

births.

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the

world!

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood.

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.