Orgasm during childbirth?! Tell me this is a lie!!

[kitegirl]

A friend of mine has a very competitive MIL. This friend has just given birth to her first, a nightmare labour with every possible intervention you could imagine (she's cool about it, bless her). Her MIL won't stop going on how amazing all her births were, saying how she just 'breathed the babies out' and how all her births were such ecstatic, spiritual experiences that she actually had an orgasm during each one!

Now I know a birth can be enjoyable, but an orgasm??? I've never heard this happening. Is this a case of one-upmanship? I told my friend that there's only one place to find out and that's Mumsnet... so what do you think?

Of course Cluck :) (And I am probably wrong...)

no Rhubarb, not quite.
it was FABULOUS though.

G&A is pretty fucking brilliant in itself cluck

cluck i didnt think you worked fridays...........................................

cluckcluck run off before I pelt you with my organic-battery eggs

I take it you'll be having plenty of kids then!

this from a website

'"I feel the baby come down. The sensation is ecstatic. I had prepared somewhat for this being as painful as my last delivery had been. Yet this time the pulse of birth feels wonderful! I am building up to the birth climax after nine months of pleasurable foreplay. With one push the babe is in the canal. THE NEXT PUSH BRINGS HIM DOWN, DOWN INTO THAT SPACE JUST BEFORE ORGASM WHEN WE WOMEN KNOW HOW GOD MUST HAVE FELT CREATING THIS PLANET....HE COMES, AS DO I."
-From Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth, by Jeannine Parvati Baker '

Sorry, I'm glad you had a good time cluck....fair game, and all that!

But I just LMFat Welsh AO at Ms Baker.

9 months of pleasurable foreplay!!! What a laugh!

Really though! That is equating it with sex and it makes me feel really As if pregnant women haven't enough to contend with but now they are told that their pregnancy should be "pleasurable foreplay" and they have to "come" during childbirth! What utter bollocks!

it gets better

'"A woman in California was giving birth at home in a portable birth tub and feeling very sexy and loving with her partner. Each time she had a contraction she would cry out, 'Oh, baby, I love it. More...more!' Her windows were open because it was July, and soon a crowd gathered outside her home. When the baby was born amidst shouts of 'Yes!!! Yes!!! Oh, my God, yes!!!' her neighbors gave her a great round of applause. They only realized that it was a birth after they heard the cries of a baby."
-From Gentle Birth Choices, by Barbara Harper, R.N. '

I bet she had quite an audience

Sorry but I find this fucking hilarious!

What a load of shite MB!!!!

you are freaks

If you are brave enough go to

\link{http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/sensual/orgasmic.html\this site}

It is mostly about unassisted birth which strikes me are somewhat barking to start with!

I actually can agree with cluckcluck AND Rhubard - I can see how it can happen after thinking some more about it and reading cluckclucks account, and there is nothing dirty about an orgasm. But I, like Rhubard, am completely sick of the constant sexualization of women and everything to do with them. When you live in a world where you are bombarded with that in a sick and sexist way its harder to cut it any slack... iykwim. You know, we just dont want to see porn centred around childbirth! Leave us that as sacred, and if you as a woman enjoy the experience, even better!

don't by
\link{http://unassistedchildbirth.com/shanleys/\these people}
LMFAO!

Cluck....please don't think for one second I am comparing you to these people, I'm honestly not!

oh mb im a bit scared to click

dare i? is it really bad? are there pcitures

i got a great adrenalin rish after ds3
was deffo on a high but am preeeeeeeeeeeeettty sure it wasnt an orgasm

click on the last one, it is a picture of the people advocating unassisted, orgasmic birth.

I laugh so much I was glass I had a section and the bladder control is good.

Would you trust these peolpe??

pmsl @ 'bornfree' for some reason

in those pics of the woman delivering her baby in water the water is CLEAR

how could that happen? In my pics of my water birth I was clearly sitting in a huge vat of blood and shit

lol mp

mp, LOL.

I bet you looked fab!

I look like someone's just driven an intercity125 into my business end

mp you are a hoot

"business end" lol

PMSL at the term "dogging pain" on the first link.

As for the pic of The Shanleys, I'm not sure I trust the advice of hillbillies.

ROTFL!

Glad to see that you didn't lose your humour over it

I remember seeing my bits after a section and thinking, 'Christ, I look as if I've been smacked in the fanny with an axe'