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Down to Birth

#261 | Emma the Naked Doula on Pleasurable, Orgasmic Birth and Her New Book

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Emma Armstrong, author of The Fearless Birth Book, and Instagram birth influencer at @thenakeddoulaofficial, joins us today to delve into the meaning of pleasurable birth. We ask the questions, "Why should a woman want a pleasurable birth, what does it even mean, and what holds women back from experiencing pleasure instead of pain?" In this enlightening and off-the-record-style conversation, we uncover the emotions holding us back from ecstatic, pleasurable, even orgasmic birth. Emma op...

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All women deserve to have a pleasurable birth experience.

0:08.4

All women deserve to feel safe, to feel powerful and absolutely enjoy it.

0:15.6

Like, why wouldn't you want to enjoy birth?

0:17.9

Why wouldn't you?

0:19.4

If anyone out there listening has ever listened, not watched,

0:24.2

but listened just to the sound of a woman about to give birth, if you close your eyes and you listen

0:29.8

and not seeing anything, you would, honest to God, have no idea if she's about to have the best

0:34.6

orgasm of her life or push her baby out.

0:41.6

It is literally the exact same sound.

0:44.8

Because they're the same hormones we experience in sex. But I think women should understand the goal isn't orgasm.

0:49.0

It's like that may or may not happen and no one really is interested in whether it does.

0:53.9

But we want you to

0:55.4

be on that pleasure track.

0:59.4

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthing of Connecticut, Childbirth Advocate, and Postpartum

1:04.7

Support Specialist.

1:06.4

And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

1:12.4

And this is the down-to-birth podcast.

1:17.1

Childbirth is something we're made to do.

1:19.5

But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

1:24.1

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

1:33.9

Thank you. culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hi, I'm Emma. I'm also known as the naked doula and I am now a very proud author and actually an

1:42.7

accidental illustrator of the fearless birth book. So my book that's

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