Orgasmic Birth film screening October 6, 2008

What would happen if women were taught to enjoy birth rather than endure it?

Filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro reveals a revolutionary approach to birth that is statistically safer and healthier for both mother and child than the birthing and delivery methods that are standard in many parts of the world today.

Orgasmic Birth dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations. This extraordinary documentary film challenges cultural myths by revealing the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Viewers witness the passion of birth as 11 women have their babies in unhurried, nonmedicalized settings--including hospital birth centers--where they feel supported and safe. Through interviews with the couples and more than a dozen international experts in birth, we come to understand that labor and birth were intended to be enjoyed, not merely endured.

The film demonstrates ways in which modern society, by subjecting healthy women to the medicalization of birth, denies them a prime experience that is their right. Among the dozen birth specialists interviewed in the film are Sarah J Buckley, MD, author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering; Elizabeth Davis, director of the National Midwifery Institute; Marsden Wagner, MD, former director of Women's and Children's Health for the World Health Organization; and other physicians, midwives, and experts in the field.

The screening will be followed by a panel with Jill Benson, doula; Jennifer Block, author of "Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care", Karen Brody, playwright of "Birth", and Dr.. Charley Ferrer, the first Latina doctor of human sexuality in the US.

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