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Orgasmic Birth dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations. This extraordinary documentary film captures stunning moments of women riding waves of pleasure in the ecstatic release of childbirth. Through interviews with the couples and more than a dozen international experts in birth, we come to understand that labor and birth were intended to be enjoyed, not merely endured.
The film demonstrates ways in which modern society, by subjecting healthy women to the medicalization of birth, denies them a prime experience that is their right.
Among the dozen birth specialists interviewed in the film are Sarah J Buckley, MD, author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering; Elizabeth Davis, director of the National Midwifery Institute; Marsden Wagner, MD, former director of Women's and Children's Health for the World Health Organization; and other physicians, midwives, and experts in the field.
In the film, Ina May Gaskin, founder/director of the Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee, explains, “Women can be completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth. You have something powerful in you—that fierce thing comes up. Babies need moms to have that fierceness. You feel you can do anything.”
Pascali-Bonaro’s goal in making the film was to educate people about their options and the implications of the circumstances of birth for women's and babies' health and well-being lifelong. “Undisturbed birth is an integral part of woman’s sexuality and a widely neglected human right,” she says. Yet as Christiane Northrup, MD, cautions in the film, we have been brainwashed to view birth not as a natural process but as “an emergency waiting to happen.”
On the contrary, Pascali-Bonaro asserts, the body is well prepared to handle birth. During labor and birth, oxytocin, the hormone of sex and love, rises to peak levels in both mother and baby. The same elements that would create a sensuous experience with a lover—dim lights, privacy, a sense of safety—facilitate birth.
Orgasmic Birth’s evocative soundtrack was created by John
McDowell, composer of the score for the Oscar-winning documentary Born
Into Brothels.
For more about the film, please visit www.orgasmicbirth.com.