Richard Jennings, CNM, MS
How is a birth center different from a hospital?
Please describe your outcomes at the Birth Center at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City.
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
Why do doctors intervene so much in the birth process?
Sarah J Buckley, MD
You speak throughout Orgasmic Birth about the hormones of labor, birth, and breastfeeding. How does a technology-driven birth environment influence the flow of natural hormones? Does this interruption affect the woman’s and baby’s experience?
Marsden Wagner, MD
What percentage of births are better because of cesarean section? At what point does having a cesarean do more harm than good?
Billee Wolff, RN, LCCE, CD
Where can I find information about evidence-based care that supports following the natural progression of labor and birth as many of the births in the film do?
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
What needs to change most for normal birth to become the norm again?
Lonnie C. Morris, CNM, ND
If women are destined to bring new life into the world, why do we allow others to take charge of this part of our lives?
Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
This film makes me want to take action! How can I get involved?
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What is 'Orgasmic'?
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Intense or unrestrained excitement or a similar point of intensity or emotional excitement.
Please share your ecstatic or orgasmic birth story with us. Birth stories are a powerful way of passing along information and creating an awareness of all that is possible in birth. Click here to begin.
Expert Voices
“Orgasm: a pleasurable wave of tingling sensations through parts or throughout the body. Hmmmmmm, sounds nice, right? Debra Pascali-Bonaro’s film, Orgasmic Birth, has a timely presence at a critical mass juncture in the world of birth. Talking heads dialogue, reveals shocking and alarming statistics about the fear-based approach to birth in the United States and beyond. Pascali-Bonaro’s collection of emotionally evocative images of labor/birth gifts the audience with poignant, powerful, portrayals of blissful, exhilarating, footage of women who believe in the power of their bodies, connections with their babies and trust in the process of labor and birth. Kris Liem, the editor of Orgasmic Birth, weaves Pascali-Bonaro’s courageous message with a brilliant sensitivity and optimally delivers her message. This is a film to see, to present, to talk about. It’s an important, ‘next step,’ because it gives women, babies and their partners, ‘permission’ to express what has been taboo for too long. As Ina May Gaskin has been quoted so many times, ‘the hormones that got the baby their in the first place are the same hormones to get the baby out.’” Judith Elaine Halek, Director of Birth Balance
