In Part V of our six-part video series with Dr. Sarah Buckley, we discuss the sexuality of childbirth.

Childbirth is Sexual?? 

Yes, it actually is! There are so many parallels between sex and birth, and neither flow as well when we sterilize them.

In this video, Dr. Sarah Buckley explains how and why connection and intimacy can affect the experience of giving birth. Learn about the roles that hormones like oxytocin and endorphins play while making and birthing a baby. Also, find out why the effects of naturally produced hormones vary from those of synthetic treatments.

Find out more about Dr. Sarah Buckley’s perspectives on the sexuality of childbirth.

Watch below to learn more

Sterility vs. Sexuality in childbirth with Dr. Buckley

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About Dr. Buckley

Dr. Sarah Buckley in Bali during the filming of Your Hormones of Childbirth Film Series

Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting.

She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland,, where her research is focused on oxytocin and the autonomic nervous system in labour and birth, and the impacts of interventions.

Dr Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, anthropological, cross-cultural, psychological, and personal. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children.

Her bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices, published by Celestial Arts/PenguinRandomHouse (US, 2009), builds on her acclaimed first edition, published in Australia as Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting (One Moon Press, Brisbane, 2005, available as ebook here ).

Dr Buckley has an ongoing interest in the hormones of labour and birth, and this has culminated in her groundbreaking report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing (2015 Childbirth Connection, a program of the National Partnership for Women and Families). This report, available for free online,  has been described as “…one of the most revolutionary and influential publications on maternity and newborn care ever issued.”

Learn more about Dr. Buckley – https://sarahbuckley.com/