Susanna Snyder, Maternity Home for Homeless Pregnant Women
Resident Program Coordinator, Tallahassee, Florida
I became pregnant at the age of seventeen. After visiting abortion clinics, reviewing young mother stories and considering every option, I decided on adoption and then become actively involved in my pregnancy in a way that I hadn't with anything else in my life. After my labor was over, I was left with the feeling that I could do anything and do it well. I adored this world of empowered women taking control of their birth experiences. I went to college and soon realized I would be following in the footsteps of Robbie Davis-Floyd and I will be attending grad school for anthropology. In the mean time, I jumped at the offer to work at the Maternity Home for homeless pregnant women and I now spend my days helping our residents find jobs and gain more permanent housing, trying to build confidence and foster hope. I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life working toward childbirth re-education in America and around the world.
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
“We need to let all women know the ‘best kept secret’: that women who approach childbirth free from fear and confident in their bodies have every chance to have a positive and empowering birth experience. Pascali-Bonaro’s Orgasmic Birth DVD is very much needed at this turning point in maternity care. Individuals who care for birthing women know the typical birth experience today is costly financially. More importantly, it is costly to the health of our mothers and babies in higher morbidity and mortality rates from too many medical and surgical interventions. The very best way to keep mothers and babies normal is to keep the births normal. In the most delightful serendipity, normal births where women are encouraged to use their inner strength result in an ecstatic, and yes often orgasmic, experience.” Roberta M. Scaer
Co-Author of A GOOD BIRTH, A SAFE BIRTH
