When we have that oxytocin flowing, when we are aroused, our vagina unfolds, it opens up by almost two centimetres for some people.

So already we have this blood flow and we have this sort of beautiful sort of opening of the vagina, you know, from the oxytocin that's flowing through our system,

if we can understand that and implement that into our labour and into our birthing experience,

spiritually, we can go to that orgasmic place and have that orgasmic feeling during birth.

I get so angry because I just still can't believe in this day and age. We are

expecting women to hold their breasts and reduce that oxygen, that airflow to, to themselves,

to their baby, and forcefully pushing down when there is really no need.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth

advocate, and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and

international board certified lactation consultant. And this is the down-to-birth podcast.

Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Hi everyone. My name's Emma. I'm also known as the naked doula. I'm a hypnobirthian practitioner, a doula, an illustrator and a mother. And I help people all over the world

feel confident and informed to have a really good, happy, positive birth

experience. So tell us, before we officially start, tell us about you and how you developed

the following you have, the work that you do. What, like, what is it about you do you think

that has drawn people to you if you're

totally honest about it? And what is it that makes you special and different? Do you know what?

I think, first of all, there's a few things, I think, because when I was pregnant with,

I was always interested in childbirth and midwifery. And I'd always try, I never did my A-levels, never

finished them. And I tried to get on access to university courses for midwifery in my younger years,

and it could never continue it due to financial problems that I had throughout my life, earlier

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