Orgasmic Birth: Podcast

Sexuality is often seen as a commodity in today's society, which removes its sacredness. The disconnect has led to generations of people not enjoying their birth experience.

Sheila Kamara Hay shares how letting the sexual energy flow from our bodies as opposed to resistance allows for magnified pleasure. Tune in to learn about sensual expansion and how we can activate pleasure within the body to support the progression of your labor. Sheila emphasizes the power of tapping into our natural design and how pleasure is an innate part of our process.

Sheila is an Ecstatic Birth visionary and advocate, training birth practitioners in transforming the landscape of birth from pain to pleasure. A leader in the pleasurable birth movement, she believes that childbirth has the potential to be one of the most transforming, empowering, and enjoyable experiences in a woman's life. Sheila is the creator of The Ecstatic Birth Training Sessions, a multidisciplinary digital program empowering women to create pleasurable childbirth experiences. 

In this episode:

• Sheila Kamara Hay discusses the disconnect between birth and sexuality and how the Ecstatic and Orgasmic Birth movement is working to change that.
• Sexuality is used as a commodity in today's society and it's important to reconnect it to the sacred.
• Debra and Sheila discuss the importance of sexuality and how it is often hidden in the shadows, with a lot of shame attached.
• Reprogram your subconscious beliefs and what we learned about birth through resources such as the film Orgasmic Birth!
• Pleasure is a powerful tool to nourish your body and support you through the process of childbirth.
• Sensual expansion is learning to access pleasure from within your own body. This can be done through practices such as breath, sound, movement, and visualization.
• Our physiology, our anatomy, and our hormonal systems point out that pleasure is an innate part of our process. 
• Start to connect with your body more to move through life more effectively.
• Follow your body's wisdom, including mental rational wisdom, primal wisdom, and experiential wisdom.

Key Takeaways:

• Birth is sexual - reclaim the connection between birth and sex
• Look for images of beautiful births and reflect the kind of experience you want
• Reconnect sexuality to your body's sacredness
• Pleasure is not the reward - it is part of the process
• Your own experience with your sexuality is important when preparing for birth
• Pleasure supports both the mother and the child during early postpartum days and throughout parenthood
• Observe the subtlety of sensations and feel the connection
• Understanding your own body and sexuality can empower you in other areas of your life

Tweetable Quotes:

"Birth is the culmination of the sexual act… We conceive with our sexual bodies, and we birth with our sexual bodies." - Sheila Kamara Hay 

"There are so many reasons, people aren't enjoying the experience of childbirth. But a big one is a lack of understanding of this connection that we are birthing with our sexual bodies. And we need to honor that aspect of our design, in order to be able to birth in ways that feel better, because just like sex can be really pleasurable, or really painful, like birth is the same thing." - Sheila Kamara Hay 

"Learn how to use your sound to access pleasure in your body, to access the sexual energy, to let it flow as opposed to resisting." - Sheila Kamara Hay 

"We are biological beings. And if we just look at our physiology, our anatomy, and our hormonal systems, then we can understand that pleasure is an innate part of our process. It's an innate part of our design." - Sheila Kamara Hay 

Connect with Sheila Kamara Hay

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EcstaticBirth/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecstaticbirth/?hl=en

Website: https://ecstaticbirth.pro/about/

Email: [email protected]

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. 

Understanding our beautiful, natural design and allowing ourselves to be in alignment leads us to a joyful and empowering childbirth. 

Sokhna Heathyre Mabin talks about her journey from her initial challenging childbirth experience to birthing naturally full of pleasure and trust in her own body. Listen in as she breaks down how to honor our bodies and trust the process of natural childbirth.

Sokhna Heathyre Mabin is a Mother, Yogini, Herbalist, Doula, Sound Therapist, Perinatal counselor, and Performance Artist. Sokhna is an experienced, full-spectrum doula of 17 years. Her private doula practice is MamaSutra Loving Arts,  which also houses her herbal apothecary The Tantric Tavern.  Sokhna is a co-creator of the WMed Doula Community Program in Kalamazoo, MI,  serving women of color with high-risk pregnancies. 

In this episode:

• Sokhna Heathyre Mabin discusses how her first childbirth could have gone differently - how the doctors and nurses disregarded her birth plan and then ended up doing a cesarean.
• From this experience, she decided to be a doula with the aim of creating a better birth experience for women.
• Sokhna shares how her experience with postpartum care at her son's hospital was"atrocious" and she feels that it should be "joyful and colorful and beautiful".
• The journey to becoming a doula - meeting communities creating a web of care and organizing workshops to provide better postpartum care for birthing people of color
• Being scared during labor and delivery is too often part of the process. Learn to Trust the process.
• The natural process and design must not be interrupted, but supported and adjusted to make it happen.
• Orgasmic birth is life-affirming and connecting to all things.

Key Takeaways:

• Pregnancy can be highly sacred and purposeful
• How women of color are treated differently is an awful reality
• Creating a bond right after birth is powerful and meaningful
• Our natural design must not be interrupted
• Understand your birth story
• Learn to trust the process by being open

Tweetable Quotes:

"[In] the hospital, that recovery room is atrocious…There's no reason any person should ever be in a gray and dingy space. When they [mothers] are recovering from birth, that needs to be a joyful, colorful, beautiful, and peaceful oasis." - Sokhna Heathyre Mabin

" I needed to talk about my experience. I needed to share with people that I was hurt for a long time. To not recognize your baby, to not be given a moment to see him or see her… And now we're bonding. Time together is of the essence." - Sokhna Heathyre Mabin

"And that [natural] birth made me connect. I connected to all things, I connected naturally that everybody came from a mother, that this is the process, that life is this process, it's designed. Sometimes, the design may not work, the alignment may not be there and there are methods that will save our lives, but the method, the process is not to be interrupted. It's to be supported and adjusted." - Sokhna Heathyre Mabin

"Trust the process. If all the things are in alignment, if you've done all of your investigating yourself, find those ways because every baby in every birth is different." - Sokhna Heathyre Mabin

Connect with Sokhna Heathyre Mabin

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sokhnaheathyremabin

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sokhnamaha/?hl=en

Website: https://wildwomanfest.com/sokhna-heathyre-mabin-bio/ 

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.

What does it take to allow ourselves to go into the realms of pleasure during childbirth in order to have a positive experience? In this episode, Naoli Vinaver tackles midwifery techniques and emphasizes the importance of pleasure during childbirth. Listen closely as she describes the physical and emotional signs that labor is progressing.

​Naolí Vinaver is a Mexican midwife who combines traditional Mexican and contemporary home birth practices, with a profound respect for the physiology of natural birth, having attended over 1700 home births in both Mexico and Brazil. Naolí is a passionate speaker and educator, teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars in over 30 countries around the world. 

In this episode:

• Naoli Vinaver shares her experience as a traditional and certified midwife, a speaker, and an educator, teaching birth philosophies techniques and their relationship to sexuality.
• When a woman gives birth, she allows herself to go into passionate expression realms. This is a sign that the birth is positive.
• Naoli talks about the healing potential of birth and how it is an opportunity to transmute into empowerment.
• It is important to acknowledge our bad experiences. Acknowledgment can help to dissolve bumps in the road and to see the past more clearly.
• All parts of the body are connected. Including them in the experience of massage, touch, and labor, the birthing process can be more harmonious and natural.

Key Takeaways:

• Birth is a fiery process that is full of heat and luscious exuberance
• Sexuality can be explored and felt in a pure way
• Lack of connection with your body during childbirth poses difficulties
• Transmute negative energy into a positive energy
• It is possible to have a climate of joy and beauty during childbirth
• Find a doula and midwife who will support you to access pleasure

Tweetable Quotes:

"Everyone can have the opportunity to explore and discover our birthright, which is to feel and to enjoy and to feel expanded." - Naoli Vinaver

"We can exercise very pure, very beautiful sexuality that is ever-expanding within its extreme eroticism and its heat and its power such as women when they give birth." - Naoli Vinaver

Connect with Naoli Vinaver

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.naolivinaver.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nvinaver/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwOhOZAM1erMqRuBP07jJFg

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.

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!