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Orgasmic Birth Featured in Germany

As Orgsmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret travels the world, we have aired in 46 countries, in 10 languages. The documentary continues to stir emotions and discussions of all that is possible in birth. This Decmeber writer Marlene Stockel was intriqued by the film and wrote three blogs.

Wie haben Sie sich nach der Geburt Ihres Kindes gefühlt? Auffällig ist: Es besteht ein unheimlicher Leistungsdruck und das Gefühl, versagt zu haben. Die, die ihr Kind per Kaiserschnitt zur Welt gebracht haben und die, die nicht in 7 Stunden die Geburt hingelegt haben. Wieso ist das so? Wie konnte sich dieses wundervolle, zutiefst transformierende Erlebnis seiner Natürlichkeit derart berauben lassen? Wie können Sie sich auf eine orgasmische Geburt ohne Leistungsdruck vorbereiten?

So können Sie eine orgasmische Geburt erleben

Entdecken Sie das Geheimnis der orgasmischen Geburt

Orgasmische Wassergeburt erleben

If you speak German, I hope you will enjoy her articles and share some of your thoughts and comments with us at www.facebook.com/obirth

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Women need to hear positive birth stories

This week, we are proud to share our interview with Debra Pascali-Bonaro, a respected childbirth educator, expert and advocate, and filmmaker of “Orgasmic Birth,” now also a book. As Debra describes, childbirth is not only a completely natural and magnificent event, it has the potential to be pleasurable!

MA: Unnecessary birth interventions are at an all-time high. What can we attribute this to?

DPB: I think it has many, many facets. It’s hard to name only one, but a huge part of it is that we live in a society where we believe there’s an element of safety in technology. We have become comfortable with technology, and even with surgery. Thank goodness surgery and medicine have advanced and become safer, because they’re often life-saving, but society has a false reliance in technology when related to birth. The increase of its overuse has led the U.S. to higher maternal mortality, and perpetuates a high rate of infant mortality when compared to other developed countries. We have highly-skilled obstetricians caring for healthy, low-risk moms and babies — and their training is typically in high-risk situations. It’s like hiring a pediatrician to babysit your 2-year-old. The pediatrician will do a wonderful job, but is perhaps overqualified.

[Diary of an Expat Bride] Exploring birth together

Every pregnant woman spends a good part of her pregnancy worrying about the upcoming birth. Book reading, Internet research and listening to other women’s birth stories quickly becomes an obsessive occupation for the mother-to-be, regardless of what culture or country she comes from.

I was no different. My pregnancy thus far had been full of surprises and had not given me the blissful, powerful feeling I always thought I would feel when I became pregnant. Instead I felt insecure, afraid and paranoid. And in addition to that, I was experiencing all of this outside of my country and culture and far from my family. An American living the expat life in Turkey for more than seven years, I thought I had experienced all forms of culture shock. After I became pregnant, I got to see my adopted homeland in a different light.

6 Orgasmic Birth Myths

The documentary Orgasmic Birth by childbirth educator and filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro was an instant hit when it circulated theaters last year. With a name like that, how could it not? After all, it has the O word in it, and many of us could not imagine such a thing during the pain of labor. We just had to watch it.

Now Pascali-Bonaro and Elizabeth Davis, a midwife and author, have written the complete How-To on getting the ultimate pleasure during childbirth.

They talked to me in advance of the release of Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Birth Experience, which goes on sale June 8, to dispel several myths right from the get-go:

documentary review: Orgasmic Birth

Yesterday the Netflix arrived in the mailbox! I was excited to sit down and watch Orgasmic Birth. Jason, on the other hand, was...not as excited. Here's the trailer:

I was a little bit hesitant before watching this movie. I know that birth can be powerful, moving, exciting, and incredibly emotional. But, orgasmic?

The movie followed 7 families in their quest for natural, comfortable birth. Some women gave birth in pools, another in a shower, one on a deck outside, one in the hospital. I watched pretty much in awe as all of their births took place--they were all so "in the zone" and embracing what was happening to their bodies instead of freaking out and fighting it. It was beautiful! Most of the mommies didn't actually have "orgasmic" births, but said afterwards that they chose to embrace the sensations as pleasure rather than pain.

EKSKLUZIVNO: DEBRA PASCALI BONARO O PORODIH NA DOMU

Avtorica dokumentarnega filma Orgazmičen porod, Američanka Debra Pascali Bonaro, je mati petih otrok, zadnjih šestindvajset let dela kot doula. Ker se je v zadnjem času pri nas precej razvnelo vprašanje poroda na domu, smo jo poprosili za intervju.

Avtorica dokumentarnega filma Orgazmičen porod (Orgasmic Birth), Američanka Debra Pascali Bonaro, je mati petih otrok, kot doula ali spremljevalka pri porodu dela zadnjih šestindvajset let. Je ena od predsednic International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative, nekdanja članica upravnega odbora DONA International ter vodja izobraževanj za porodne in poporodne doule pri Dona International. Od leta 1986 vodi priprave na porod in od leta 1987 usposablja doule in je učiteljica za vodje priprav na porod.

Stand and Deliver

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010
Interview with Debra Pascali-Bonaro, filmmaker of "Orgasmic Birth"
I had the pleasure of interviewing filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro about her recent documentary Orgasmic Birth (please see my review of the film if you haven't yet watched it). After you read the interview, please leave comments, questions, or thoughts about the film, the issues it raises, etc. I'd love to hear from you!

Stand and Deliver

Review of Orgasmic Birth I met the filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro at the Lamaze Conference in October, and she gave me a copy of Orgasmic Birth to review. I’ve watched it three times and had three very different reactions to the movie. This isn’t a traditional film review; I won’t be giving a play-by-play of what happens in the movie. It’s more a written account of the conversations I’ve had with myself and with others as I’ve thought about the film. The first time, I watched it alone while sewing. I found myself close to tears during the birth scenes. They were beautiful and moving. The noises and the movements evoked a bodily memory of my own births. When I watched these women move and heard them give birth, my body knew what they were experiencing.

Wordpress weblog

My Orgasmic Birth QUEST!! At 15 weeks pregnant today and this being my first pregnancy I have embarked on the somewhat intimidating journey of discovery about pregnancy and birth. I have been lucky enough along the way to have had some amazing teachers already and this has prompted me to start this blog – to include all expecting mothers, mothers-to-be, partners, husbands, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, cousins, sisters, generally all mothers or potential mothers & parents to seek more from their birthing experiences – to ask the hard questions and to ultimately heal ourselves, our babies, our partners and our families through the wonderful experience that is birth!

Feminists For Choice

Watch List: Orgasmic Birth Women of earth, take back your birth!- Lonnie C. Morris, CNM, ND As an aspiring doula and having grown up with a mother who was a licensed midwife, I have seen a myriad of birth videos. I would honestly say, however, that Orgasmic Birth is the best and most enjoyable birth video I have ever seen. The overall purpose of the film is to encourage women to view birth as an organic process in which they are able to exercise complete control. Stories of several couples are presented to provide proof that this is indeed a possibility. Orgasmic Birth does a wonderful job of including stories and labor experiences that are as intriguing as the title. The first couple we meet is having their baby in their backyard. In the post-labor interview the father explains how much he enjoyed telling his friends that his baby was born “On the deck, 3:00 p.m., on a Sunday.” I was instantly intrigued.

What is 'Orgasmic'?

ôr-gaz'mik

Intense or unrestrained excitement or a similar point of intensity or emotional excitement.

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Expert Voices

“Orgasmic Birth makes such a contribution in this society in which most young women don’t even know they have choices or think that others (doctors) know best. You have taken a major step forward to open minds and hearts in the realm of birthing — future generations will most certainly be grateful.”
Susan Highsmith, Co-Chair XIV International APPPAH Congress