The Orgasmic Birth Blog

 It feels like coming home to my doula tribe as I am reconnecting with many of the founders of DONA International, Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, Marshall Klaus, Annie Kennedy as well as past presidents, doula

August 1-7, 2010 is World Breastfeeding Week.  The brainchild of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), this year’s theme is “Breastfeeding: Just Ten Steps!  The Baby Friendly Way.”

What are those ten steps? Twenty years ago, the Innocenti Declaration outlined a vision that every facility providing maternity services and care for newborn infants would:

1. Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff.

I felt this news is too important  so I am posting the recent enews directly from Childbirth Connection.

Please share with your networks and contact your representatives to ask them to support the MOMS for the 21st Century Bill.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the nation’s leading professional group of women’s care providers, changed its ten-year-old guidelines regarding Vaginal Births After Cesareans (VBACs) this week. The 1999 guidelines stated that VBAC should be only be provided in institutions where physicians were “immediately available” should an emergency occur.

Posted on Facebook: 

Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Birth Experience is getting great reviews...but I'd love to hear from any of you that have read it...what do you think?The title is as political as it is personal: we hope that women who have already decided on epidural will pick it up and reconsider their options.

 Here are the responses:

"In process of reading it now. Liking what I've read so far! Will weigh in when I've finished it."

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If you loved the Orgasmic Birth movie, then you won’t want to miss the Orgasmic Birth book.  Acclaimed Orgasmic Birth filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro has joined forces with renowned author and activist Elizabeth Davis to support women in attaining the most empowering and satisfying birth experience possible.

The newest version of the groundbreaking classic "Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom" by Christiane Northrup, M.D., is now available in bookstores across the United States.  "Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom" is an essential guide for how to truly flourish in a female body, not merely avoid disease.  In fact, the new "Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom" is an owner’s manual designed to teach you everything that can go right with your body.

This week you have an official reason to celebrate childbirth: it’s the International Week for Respecting Childbirth! Orgasmic Birth’s world premiere was during the 2008 International Week for Respecting Childbirth, so we know from personal experience that it’s a great excuse to talk to people about how we can make birth better for mothers and babies around the world.

Elizabeth Davis, midwife and co-author, Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience (June 2010)