Sunday, January 4, 2009
Orgasmic birth..the best kept secret?
I watched this special the other night. These women turn pain into pleasure and from the film it sure looks like they aren't faking. That Amber chick looks like she'd get off on anything though. You could probably drive a John Deer through her cooter and she'd go cross eyed and beg for more. She probably gives herself C-sections with salad tongs just for fun. I think you'd have to have the perfect birth to do this and I don't know anyone who had a perfect text book birth. I had huge babies, labor for days, posterior presentations and one long pain instead of contractions so I have no clue how you'd control that. But, even if I did have a perfect birth, I wouldn't want my kids first experience in the world to be making me have an orgasm. I'd take the pain instead. The idea quite creeps me. That's just my personal hang up. What do you guys think? Anyone ever done this or heard of it??
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I had two perfect births...and that idea creeps me out.
I know! Wouldn't you look at the kid all their life and think, nice head, tee hee. Uggg, it's not happening.
Nope. I've never seen one. Twenty years experience as a labor nurse, and I've never seen this. My experience is all hospital, though. Might make a difference, but I can't imagine a watermelon passing through that area on me hitting "all the same spots" that a nice penis hits, going in. Orgasms are not all about the vagina, anyway, and I think your clitoris crawls away quietly, weeping, at such times.
I think that it's probably okay to do this, if you keep your mouth shut about it. None of the rest of us want to know.
What about that last woman, the one who wanted her third birth to be "natural" at home? I guess the experience was all about her and not the baby, as the last shot of them was of the baby tightly wrapped in blankets, on her tummy. . . not skin-to-skin as we teach. The benefits of skin-to-skin are multiple (better transition for the baby, less fussiness, better adjustment to nursing, better development of lactating tissue, etc.) But it was probably all about her having an orgasm, anyway. Not about the baby.
Omg! I was in labor for 24hours, and you are SO right, it was just straight PAIN!!! I wound up with 40 stitches, inside and out, including getting my a##hole stitched back to together, cuz that ripped too!!! Who the HELL has a 'perfect birth' and i would NEVER want to orgasm as I gave birth! Thats just wrong! lol! and creepy! keep the orgasms for the adult times, the fun times, and lets just do the Epidurals and csections for deliveries..
i don't think it's that creepy. if it happens it happens, good for them, i guess. but i don't think it should be something that anyone strives for. then it's just about making women feel like they're somehow less for not getting their rocks off while pushing a mini human out of their vag.
i feel like the previous posters are thinking in terms of a male doctor/old fashioned(ie; 50's) perspective. Women have been giving birth for thousands of years, and only in the last 100 or less years, women have been having "modern" births. I think american women are taught to be ashamed of their bodies and natural processes that are apart of being a woman. For women to be in control of their birth experiances and the physical feelings that go along with them should be seen as empowering. What a positive way for a child to be welcomed into this world. Both creating and birthing a child should be a passionate experiance, an uplifting event for all involved in this miracle. Maybe those uncomforatble with these ideas should do some research on the benefits of natural and alternative birthing methods for both mother and baby. Open you minds.
I've heard about women having orgasms while giving birth, but I understood that the pain was still horrible...
I had four "natural" births and nothing close to an orgasm ever happened. I have never heard of this, tho it's interesting. I did have many orgasms while breastfeeding. Anyone else?
While women have been giving birth for thousands of years, let us not forget, that the survival rate of such an "empowering, passionate" experience was not always as good as it has been within the last 100 years or so. Maybe those uncomfortable with this idea should do some research on the benefits of natural and alternative birthing methods for both mother and baby in a safe environment with medical professionals.
Opening your mind means respecting opinions other than your own. It doesn't mean you have to embrace their opinions as your own - or to call other women, and indeed an entire culture of women, as closed minded because they don't have the same belief as you.
And yes, for different reasons, I think the idea of an 'orgasmic' birth ... is uncomfortable.
and while the 'western' world evolved, the USA still have the highest mother and child death rate 'in the west' ... and it is not from all that 'natural birth hype'.
Well, judging from some of the men involved, these poor women sure as hell did not have the big O while CONCEIVING the children.
I use all the spread beaver birth videos and natural childbirth claptrap on the internet to teach teenagers to use birth control. The lust of a teen age boy is hard to kill but those pictures are VERY effective.
As for teen age girls? After viewing just one or two online tributes to the natural joys of childbirth- you can HEAR their knees slapping shut.
All I know is the pain wasn't in my vagina. It was back and abdominal labor hell and I don't know how that can be pleasure. It engulfs your whole body. The actual birth didn't hurt. (I had no drugs.) How would you get past that labor ordeal??? I just don't get it.
Oh, puh-lease. Like that might happen. Having gone through this lovely process five -- read that 5 -- times, I can tell you that orgasmic it ain't.
I heard about orgasmic birth when my brother and wife were having their first child. Before she went into labour the doctor told her about this method. She refused it but he did sound quite positive about it. Orgasms are known to be a sexual experience yes, but we have to try to think of them as not such a dirty thing. Because a woman has an orgasm during birth doesn't mean it has anything to do with sex, but more so with feeling. It's how we see it. If it's something that a woman wants to try and it helps her deliver without as much pain then I say go for it. But that's my opinion and everyone doesn't have to share it. I think it's a beautiful thing..
Eliza
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