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OMG, that looks awesome. I might try to get hold of it before my next birth :)
Wow that looks fantastic.
wow it looks great! some very intimate scenes....just the trailer made me cry let alone the movie
Who's going to the screenings?? I can't wait to hear Dr Sarah Buckley and Rhea Dempsey speak at the Melbourne screening, Oct 3rd! Will buy the DVD, too - this is the kind of birth I want all my friends to have :)
wow something different but i love it
lol DF thought this was just too weird
not too sure about this.. i kinda find it a little hard to believe. would have to watch the whole movie i think. great in theory though. :-)
Spiritual Midwifery has photos of a girl having an orgasmic birth, there's NO doubt from her expressions what's happening!
Looks a great film, must try to see it :)
Bx
They have done themselves in with the mainstream by having a title like that but oh well I get their sentiments. It does happen, and in fact a theory as to why women have the g-spot is to trigger an extra oxytocin release when the baby is descending down the birth canal to make sure baby is born. But so many women are having medical, drugged labours they wont be able to experience it. I have had a drug-free birth, and it did get intense but not as bad as on the drip and I would describe the experience as being on a huge high... I am not afraid of birth, I love it, can't wait to experience it again when I am ready.
Oh wow. I can't say I physically found giving birth as pleasurable as an orgasm but absolutely yes, yes, yes to all the things they say in that clip. Birth is such an amazing experience and I felt like I could move mountains after the birth of my son. I am so glad I felt it and didn't shy away from it. I feel very blessed that I wasn't scared of labour and was able to enjoy it. Looks like a fantastic movie.
Are you going to have screenings Kel? I would love to organise one for Shepparton (as well as see it for myself ;) )
Consider me theory in practice ;) Not JUST a theory!
I came across this when I was researching when I was pregnant, and made so much sense to me, and DF.
nfortunately, it wasnt to be...unless you call the magical tingling warmth of an epidural orgasmic ;) lol
Kelly, are you going to have copies of this for sale too ?
There is a screening in the Blue Mountains soon, but my client is due very close to then so I'm not sure if I can make it and would love to see it. So I was hoping that you will be getting copies to sell :D
if it was only that easy
Ummm, it's not a fantasy film - people really do have these births and I'm not talking out of my @rse...I had one that was really quite nice :)
Maybe you could benefit from watching the entire film? I'm looking forward to watching it in Melbourne.
I don't see what's wrong in aiming for something approximating orgasm in birth - even if it doesn't get to be one of these births, the closer the better, no?
My birth has turned me into a birth junkie.
I love, love, LOVED my labour and birth experience.
Yay, Cookiemonster! Me too :) We ARE the comeback to the ubiquitous comment "good luck having a nice birth" ;)
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I agree that this is a wonderful view of birth that should be the view women are given over the popular mass media fear and pain view we see day in and day out.
3rd October and another (forget, but I have tix for 3rd), Dr Sarah Buckley and Rhea Dempsey will present at that one. The Birth Attendants website is selling tix (can use paypal) but you'll have to google it cos I can't post the link. It's at the cinema in South Yarra :)
I am fortunate enough to have seen a full copy of this wonderful film. Unfortunately the title will be off-putting to some. The film does not focus on the potentially sexual nature of birth, rather the intimate nature of birth and the transformative potential for women and partners when left to birth 'naturally'. The movie normalises the experience of pain in labour. How many birth films actually allow you to hear the vocalisation of pain in labour...they are normally covered with fluffy soundtrack. It does not offer an unrealistic or idealic view of birth, but challenges the current medical model of birth. A wonderful film, with an unfortunate title, but well worth seeing
Was EXCELLENT!! I have ordered my copy of the film to lend out to friends :)
Gotta say, I had one of these births - wasn't sure before watching the film, but as it turns out, it was undisturbed, unobserved (until arriving at FBC for breathing DS out) and I let all those sensations wash through me and I embraced them the way you would when you've got nothing else to do with a great amount of energy.
Anyway, highly recommend seeing this film where opportunity arises.
Dr Sarah Buckley and Rhea Dempsey were wonderful, as expected.
The film differs from TBOBB in that it really doesn't dwell on the negatives (which was needed for TBOBB and addressed important things) and instead gives something to work towards (rather than against, i.e. they system) and focuses on the positives and why this kind of birth is so optimal for the birthing mother and her child. And it states right at the start that 10% of women will never be able to birth like this these days because we know they are high risk and they need medical interventions in the final weigh up of loss minimisation. So, for the rest of us, the film applies and has a valid message.
I love the title, too - it's quite appropriate, given that many of us have sex to get our babies!