The Orgasmic Birth Blog

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

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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)

Jordan Levinson is a graduate student, writer, musician, and aspiring doula. She is completing a Masters in Public Health at New York University with a focus on international community development and maternal mortality reduction. She lives in New York City and you can contact her at jord.levinson@gmail.com.  

Birth and sex are not separate events that happen nine months apart. Aspects of the same psycho-somatic-spiritual trance journey, they produce profound and connected altered states of consciousness. There's an integral relationship between the processes of birth, sexual arousal and orgasm—they share the same equipment and pathways (electro-chemical, neurobiological, energetic and more).

Two weeks ago, over 130 birth activists in New York lobbied in Albany for the passage of the Midwifery Modernization Act. What is this Act all about? As you may be aware, New York midwives (like midwives in 35 other states) are currently required to have a written practice agreement with a physician in order to practice. It is difficult for many midwives to find physicians who will sign one of these agreements. Many doctors believe that if they sign one, they will become liable for all of a midwife’s patients.