ep. 60 - Incorporating Pleasure Into Daily Life to Prepare for an Orgasmic Birth

Join Debra Pascali Bonaro and Suzannah Weiss as they explore the transformative power of pleasure in childbirth. Discover how living orgasmically can heal trauma, cultivate breast sensitivity through massage, and create a birth plan that supports orgasmic births. Uncover techniques for staying calm during labor and envisioning the energy of your baby spiraling around you.

Suzannah Weiss is a sex and relationship writer, multi-certified sex educator, sex and love coach, sexual assault counselor and birth doula, helping people to live their lives orgasmically. Suzannah has been published in The New York Times wedding section, Glamour‘s sex guides, with writing on gender, sexuality, love, and social justice all over the internet, with over 8,700 articles published. She is a regular contributor to The Washington Post and New York Magazine.

Don't miss this conversation on embracing pleasure in childbirth!

 In this episode:

• Suzannah Weiss's research on orgasmic birth challenges societal misconceptions about women's bodies and the notion that childbirth must be painful.
• Practical techniques like visualization, breathwork, and meditations are shared for preparing for an orgasmic birth.
• Tips for preparing for an orgasmic birth include mindfulness practices, embracing intense sensations, and experimenting with different forms of touch, emphasizing the integration of sexuality and childbirth.
• Ideas like using personal mementos or exploring hypnobirthing techniques to address fear and promote relaxation are recommended.
• The importance of embracing sensations and energy for a fulfilling birthing experience is highlighted
• Suzannah aims to assist trauma survivors in experiencing childbirth as a positive and healing event.

Key Takeaways:

• Importance of a supportive team and comfortable birth setting in facilitating an orgasmic birth, even within a medical environment.
• Birth is part of a birthing person's sexuality and should not be shamed.
• Orgasmic breath work and breast massages help to cultivate breast sensitivity
• Keeping a healthy sex life during pregnancy can help with an orgasmic birth.
• Take a moment to connect with the calmness and love in your heart for your child.
• Consider taking something with you that reminds you of your child.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Fear escalates into more tension. So you can find a way to just knit the fear in the bud, whatever that is." - Suzannah Weiss

“Imagine the baby or the energy spiraling around you and making its way out, and you're just there to facilitate it." - Suzannah Weiss

Connect with Suzannah!

Website: https://suzannahweiss.com/contact/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannahweiss/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weisssuzannah/

Connect with Debra!

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Visit https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/ for more information on how to Positively Prepare for birth and parenting 

Check out Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, the film creating buzz around the world: https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/the-film/

Orgasmic Birth Podcast: Pleasure in pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I believe pleasure is our birthright - from our sexuality, birth, parenting, and beyond, we can find pleasure when we create space for joy and intimacy in our lives. Join me to have deep conversations about breaking the taboos of Sexuality + Motherhood/Parenthood. 

Listen to leading experts in sexuality, healing, and childbirth as well as stories from new parents, doulas, doctors, midwives, and nurses. We will discuss how to positively prepare for childbirth and parenting by expanding love and intimacy in your life.