What would happen if women were taught to enjoy birth rather than endure it?
In answering that question, Orgasmic Birth poses the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths. Filmmaker, childbirth educator, doula, and birth activist Debra Pascali-Bonaro reveals a revolutionary approach to birth that is statistically safer and healthier for both mother and child than the birthing and delivery methods that are standard in many parts of the world today. As a result, this film dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations.
The viewer becomes an intimate part of the birth stories of 11 women who said YES to this journey. Each is shown laboring undisturbed in a free, sensuous, joyous moment. Witness the passion as birth is revealed as an integral part of woman’s sexuality and a neglected human right.
Health professionals in the film who present their views with evidence-based support include:
* Sarah J Buckley, MD, general practitioner/family physician with qualifications in GP obstetrics;
author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering
* Maureen Corry, MPH, executive director, Childbirth Connection, a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to improving the quality of maternity care
* Elizabeth Davis, BA, CPM, midwife, author, international lecturer, and co-founder and director
of the National Midwifery Institute, Inc.
*Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM, world-renowned midwife, author, and founder/director of the Farm
Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee
*Christiane Northrup, MD, is a visionary in women’s health and wellness. A board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, she recognizes that health and healing are women’s birthright and helps empower women to tune into their innate inner wisdom to transform their health and their lives.
* Marsden Wagner, MD, former director of Women’s and Children’s Health, World Health Organization
**A panel of local birth professionals will be present after each Colorado Springs screening for Q&A's**
