Orgasmic Birth

Fear can be contagious. Unfortunately, when thinking about giving birth, the common thoughts are fear, pain, and fear of pain… It doesn't have to be that way. Orgasmic birth is the ultimate expression of love and intimacy between a woman and her baby. It can help to create a sense of safety and security for both mother and child and is an essential part of a healthy childbirth experience. Listen in as Debra Pascali-Bonaro tackles how to find sexual satisfaction outside of the bedroom, how to reduce pain during labor, and how to have a more pleasurable experience with your own birth.

In this episode:

• Orgasmic birth is considered a key part of a pleasurable childbirth experience
• Research has shown that having an orgasm during childbirth can increase the baby's oxygen levels, reduce pain, and help to reduce the likelihood of post-partum depression.
• A person's fear can be contagious so it is important for birth practitioners to bring in love and trust in order to create an environment that is conducive to orgasmic birth.
• Debra discusses how a woman's vision for her labor and delivery should include anticipating what the baby might need and not focusing on achieving a specific goal.
• Orgasmic birth is not just about experiencing sexual pleasure, but also all the other aspects of the experience such as love, connection, and pain relief.
• We're learning that the way people give birth is important and that there are many different positions that can be used to achieve orgasmic birth.
• Sexuality is an integral part of everyone's personality, and cannot be separated from other aspects of life.
• It is important to have good sexual education so that survivors can heal and reclaim their bodies. Birth is a time of great healing and pleasure when it is connected to sexuality.

Key Takeaways:

• Orgasm during childbirth helps reduce the likelihood of post-partum depression
• Fear is contagious, so make sure to promote love and trust
• Keep the dialogue about organic births flowing
• Birth is a sacred experience that should be celebrated
• Sexuality includes all aspects of life including birth.

Tweetable Quotes:

"When we're creating what I like to call our vision, our wishes, our desires, it's knowing that when you're the person giving laboring and birthing, you only get 50% of your desires and the other 50% is the baby's desires or their needs for safety." - Debra Pascali-Bonaro

"Orgasmic birth is to prepare people for the challenge for the intensity, but to also know that there are so many other ways that you can prepare with pleasure with joy, with love, with connection, and that you can have an orgasmic experience in many ways." - Debra Pascali-Bonaro

"There is something deep and primal and incredible in birth that once you've birthed in that [pleasurable] way, no one will take anything away from you, ever, because that power stays with you." - 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 the film 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.

Are you ready to welcome change and break away from the stigma surrounding childbirth? In this episode, my guest, Marrit Vos tells her story of how she embraced an intimate and wild birth despite fears and doubts. She describes her experience of labor, which was both empowering and beautiful.

Listen in as Marrit Vos discusses her experience as an intimate and wild birth that was perfect for her and how it can happen to women out there too. Marrit is a passionate doula for birth and postpartum as well as a dedicated placenta specialist. She´s a mother of two wild daughters, who are like a compass in her life. She is aiming to build a community that is supportive to all parents birthing and raising their kids from their hearts and intuition. Nature is automatically the starting point because she wishes her daughters -and all children- so much to be outside, feel the elements, and play. She is passionate about authentic and honest parenthood, with all its challenges, beauty, and transformative powers that are full of healing potential for the individual and the whole. To her, parenthood is a very true and clear indicator of what she wishes to bring forward into the world.

In this episode:

• There are barriers to pleasure in childbirth and parenting that can be healed through open communication and education.
• Marrit encourages listeners to seek out information and support from others as this will help to create a more pleasurable experience.
• Marrit discusses her experience with her positive home birth despite some stress and doubts.
• Orgasmic birth can happen to anyone who experiences pleasure during labor and birth.
• More people should watch realistic birth videos instead of movies that portray birth as a painful experience.
• Marrit shares her insights on how to create a birth plan that is tailored to your needs and preferences, as well as how to find a caregiver who will support you in achieving a gentle and peaceful birth.

Key Takeaways:

• Embrace the wild in childbirth
• Having control and connection with your partner during labor is crucial
• Giving birth is a beautiful experience that should be celebrated
• Create an intimate environment during labor and childbirth
• Explore your sexuality and intimacy to have the best possible experience

Tweetable Quotes:

"I felt pregnancy was quite a roller coaster. I really wanted to birth from feeling well and looking forward to it and letting go… I really try to find what feels good to me." - Marrit Vos

"Make your birth plan, how you want to give birth… See if you have the choice of picking out your caregiver, really pick the one that fits you." - Marrit Vos

Connect with Marrit:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marrit.doula/

Website: https://doula.marritvos.com

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 the film 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.

Hormones play a huge part in our bodies and because of this, one of the things we can do is make sure in the early stages of labor, women are as comfortable as possible.

How do we ensure that our hormones help to facilitate successful labor and birth?

Dr. Sarah Buckley talks about the changes that occur in the brain during labor and birth, how hormones play a role, and how oxytocin levels are highest near the end of labor.Dr. Sarah Buckley is trained as a GP (family physician) with qualifications in GP obstetrics. She has been writing and lecturing to childbirth professionals and parents since 1997 and is the author of the internationally best-selling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering. Sarah has a special interest in the hormones of physiological labor and birth and the impacts of interventions. In 2015 she completed an extensive report on this topic, Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing, published with Childbirth Connection (US). She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Queensland, researching oxytocin in labor and birth and the impacts of maternity-care interventions. She has co-authored several papers on oxytocin in labor, birth, and breastfeeding. Sarah is also the mother of four children, all born at home and now in their teenage years and beyond. She lives on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane.

In this episode:

• Sarah talks about her unexpectedly fast home birth, which she describes in further detail in her book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.
• The foundation of hormonal physiology is that first, it's designed for us to conduct successful birth. We're perfectly designed for a successful labor and birth.
• Sarah explains that oxytocin is responsible for inducing labor, increasing the sensitivity of the uterus to contract, and causing an "ecstatic" and "orgasmic" feeling.
• Labor is a process that involves many preparations, including the mother's body being maximally sensitive to oxytocin in her uterus, babies also having peak oxytocin levels, and the whole process of oxytocin being magical.
• Hugs, touches, and sexual activity can help to get labor started and help women get into an adequate state of readiness.
• Oxytocin has a pain-relieving and calming effect on the body.

Key Takeaways:

• The presence of oxytocin during the labor process contributes to the magical feeling
• Doulas can help by ensuring good oxytocin flow
• Sexual activities can promote the release of your own oxytocin

Tweetable Quotes:

"The hormonal processes of labor and birth are actually designed to change our brains." - Sarah Buckley

"The foundation of hormonal physiology is that it's designed to be successful. Birth has evolved to be successful." - Sarah Buckley

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://sarahbuckley.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-j-buckley-51ab1316/?originalSubdomain=au

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 the film 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.

You'd probably seen enough of people on TV and in movies suffering terrible, difficult deliveries, with plenty of screaming and sobbing (and perhaps a spouse's hand being squeezed, too). As a result, some women fear pregnancy, while others decide not to have children at all!

But what if giving birth didn't have to be this way? What if it turned out to be enjoyable?

Renee Rodriguez shares her beautiful experience of orgasmic birth and the possibility of this experience could change the way women see childbirth. Another value-bomb episode today. Let's get started!Renee Rodríguez is joining us from Mexico. Renee was amazed to find out how beautiful, empowering, and even orgasmic giving birth could be. She believes the world should know that it is also possible to be born with pleasure. For this reason, she trained as a Doula and has dedicated her life to accompanying other women to create well-being in their pregnancy, so that they can begin and live their motherhood fully and pleasurably

In this episode:

• Renee talks about her amazing orgasmic birth experience with her two children
• Being in the present and listening to your body helps prevent unnecessary discomfort while also keeping the experience pure
• Finding the right people around you, the doula and midwife in whom you have confidence is one of the key factors to achieving orgasmic birth
• How husbands could support their wives throughout their entire labor and childbirth

Key Takeaways:

• You know your body more than anyone. It knows what it needs. Listen to it
• Finding pleasure during childbirth is possible for women

Tweetable Quote:

"Women's birth can be a joyful experience and definitely a transforming experience and even if it might involve pain, it doesn't have to involve suffering." - Renee Rodriguez

Connect with Renee:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneerodriguezg/

Website: https://www.momfulness.life/english

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

People who are less open about their sexuality may be less likely to experience pleasure because they may regard pleasure to be psychologically improper. This is heavily influenced by how our society labels and looks at sexuality as a taboo which goes back to history.

In this episode, Rachel Gross busts the myth surrounding the female reproductive organs and shares how we can attain pleasure by understanding our anatomy and its function and how this is something not to be ashamed of.Rachel is an award-winning science journalist focusing on reproductive and sexual health, based in Brooklyn, NY. A recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, and former digital science editor of Smithsonian magazine, Gross writes for the BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American. Rachel is also an experienced public speaker and panelist and has moderated Congressional Briefings on basic science, performed for the national storytelling show Story Collider, and hosted educational videos for Scientific American. She is also the author of the new book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Shame and society's conception of genitals
• Clitoral Complex: female pleasure, anatomy, and function
• The female reproductive organ is interconnected and complex. It's more than just what we see.
• Female reproductive system's role in pleasure and arousal
• We could make the birthing experience pleasurable when we have a full understanding of the female reproductive organ's anatomy and its role.
• Bad history of 'vaginal orgasm' and 'clitoris orgasm' impacts negatively the way we look at our own sexuality
• Rewriting our thoughts about the female body, and the active role of the female reproductive organ in fertilization
• Rachel talks about the importance of understanding your own sexuality and the benefits of integrating this into sexual education

Key Takeaways:

• Familiarizing yourself with your sexual anatomy is not something to be ashamed of
• It is possible to have a comfortable and enjoyable vaginal childbirth because of the female reproductive organ's natural process
• Integrating with sex ed is a good way to make kids be engaged in their own changing bodies, understand their natural needs, and address warning signs
• Many people feel like it is taboo or inappropriate to discuss pleasure but when approached with an open mind, this could actually open up doors to self-discovery and appreciation

Tweetable Quotes:

"I think that the lens really changes when you view this as a system that's working together, both in reproduction but also in sexuality and arousal. So again, like it's not the vagina, or the clitoris or the vagina and the clitoris, it's they're both intertwined." - Rachel Gross"I think on the female side, first of all, we need to be way more like pleasure positive and talk about your body as like something beautiful to explore and have curiosity about rather than starting with a place of fear." - Rachel Gross

Connect with Rachel Gross:

Twitter: twitter.com/rachelegross

Website: https://www.rachelegross.com

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

Welcome to Orgasmic Birth! This is a podcast about pleasure in birth, parenting, and birthing. The podcast covers topics such as sexuality, taboos, birth trauma, postpartum sex, and more. The host, Debra Pascali Bonaro, is a doula who aims to provide information that will help people have more positive experiences during their births. She offers advice on how to have more enjoyable sexual experiences after giving birth, as well as tips for raising children who are respectful of their bodies and sexuality.

In this episode:

• Lack of good sexual education has led to a rise in fear of childbirth and dissatisfaction with the experience.
• Debra highlights the importance of having a positive experience during labor and birth, emphasizing the importance of trusting one's body.
• Midwives play an important role in making women feel confident and empowered in the childbirth process.
• It is important for people to have access to trained midwives who can provide support during labor and delivery.
• The Global Survey on Birth and Breastfeeding Practices was convened to launch a global initiative to improve breastfeeding rates.
• Debra talks about how collaborating with other organizations have led to a number of successes, including the creation of the International Childbirth Initiative.
• Debra also tackles the effects of bad birth experiences on people's feelings about their bodies and relationships.

Key Takeaways:

• Childbirth should be experienced in a way that is free and unrestrained
• Learning how to trust your body unlocks positive experiences
• The key to safe and enjoyable birth relies on reducing stress and simple techniques
• Trained midwives are essential in providing much-needed support
• Understand that you are the center of the care

Tweetable Quotes:

"The words people use, the way they make us feel, either opens us to birth or it can close us right down." - Debra Pascali Bonaro

"The medical model saves lives when it's needed, but the overuse and insensitive rush care is putting people at risk emotionally and physically." - 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 the film Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world!