Did you know that giving birth doesn’t have to be painful? And that our beliefs that it will be actually contribute to making it so?
Ina May Gaskin, pictured below, says that birth ecstasy and even orgasm can happen if the woman finds herself in the proper setting. “I mean, it’s not a guarantee,†she said, shrugging her shoulders and smiling, “but it’s a possibility.”
She has participated in an upcoming film called “Orgasmic Birth.” About.com has an interview with the birth activist, women’s advocate, and documentary filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro:
I hope to stimulate a discussion for young women and men to consider how an overuse of major abdominal surgery, machines and drugs are changing an experience that could be ecstatic, or orgasmic into an experience that is sometimes traumatic. With major abdominal surgery [cesarean section] now at the highest level ever in the US – over 30%, is it a coincidence that our rates of postpartum depression are also on the rise? My goal is to educate and inspire people to consider all their options; so that women and their partners will gather the information they need to make truly informed decisions.
She quotes midwife Marina Alzugaray’s article from Midwifery Today:
Orgasmic births are powerful, juicy and full of love, spiritual and unforgettable-an endless moment beyond words. It is more than lovemaking because it is releasing, loving and being stimulated by the passion of life itself. It is the gift of humankind to discover divine pleasure in birthing.
If that’s not empowerment, then I don’t know what is.
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