Birth Bundle: Four erotic short stories

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As I witnessed numerous women have sexual complexities surfacing during pregnancy and births, working with them to dissolve and resignify those obstacles has become a profound interest of mine. It is a major life event where the woman and her partner experience extreme fatigue and hormonal changes that strongly influence emotions. And sure, that percentage seems small until you consider it means 668 moms experienced physical pleasure during the birth of their baby.

There was an increase in the medicalisation of pregnancy and birth, with more hospital births, continuous monitoring and more medicinal interventions for pain relief (nitrous oxide, epidural anaesthesia, etc. Interestingly enough, some sexperts, like Kate Dimpfl, suggest that the word oxytocin comes from the Ancient Greek for “swift birth”, so there’s an argument to say that an orgasmic birth could also mean a faster one. Hormone shifts also commonly create vaginal atrophy, where the walls of your vagina become thin, dry, sore and inflamed.The littlest sibling climbs into the birthing pool as the older ones jump and clap, unable to hold their excitement. It’s been almost a full year since Charles has experienced his first successful heat, and building a life together with Erik while he grows heavy with their young has been perfectly lovely. Whether you’re masturbating or your partner is giving you a hand, clitoral stimulation during labor can sometimes help bring things along. That orgasm needs the stimulation of the cervical area and is orchestrated at the T12-L2 centre in the spinal cord.

A woman’s body and psyche cannot adapt to these changes quickly, and hormonal shifts can last the whole time one breastfeeds,” Dr. Pain is never something to normalize, and if it persists, it only gets more difficult to treat as the body begins to compensate for it and become conditioned to it. That makes oxytocin one of the potential factors when couples look for a way to influence labour proactively.Here are four things to know about having sex after pregnancy and ways you can rekindle intimacy in your relationship. Perhaps if we simply see orgasmic birth as an intensely loving, empowering experience, we might just gain more accurate statistics.

With the progress of labour, an increase in plasma cortisol level is needed to maintain maternal/foetal wellbeing and facilitate the regular labour progress. Well, one fascinating study shows that without natural oxytocin, women are at a higher risk of bleeding after birth while the need to protect their baby is all but shut down.H. Traina, Erotic Attunement: Parenting and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals [Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011], 8 and 241). It's not easy, this giving birth thing, and he requires a bit of interesting help from Sherlock to make it through. Driusso P, Beleza ACS, Mira DM, de Oliveira Sato T, de Carvalho Cavalli R, Ferreira CHJ, de Fátima Carreira Moreira R. Although I have always felt that there is something deeply spiritual about this power, I’ve come to realize there is something arousing and erotic about giving birth as well. There is a fullness to the tears that flow—from her, from me—as I experience an echo of my own experience.

Likewise, in her book, Erotic Attunement, Cristina Traina speaks of the goodness and danger of the arousal and desire connected to birth. A 2013 study found that out of 206,000 assisted or monitored births, obstetrical orgasm (the medical term for birthgasm) was reported by 0. The very existence of the orgasm during birth seems to throw into question the whole idea of orgasmic pleasure itself. When it comes to orgasmic birth, oxytocin (backed by a mix of other hormones, including endorphins and adrenaline) goes all out and gives you quite the season finale to your pregnancy show—using pleasure to manage pain.

he asked his belly, dragging a finger up from his navel as the weak spasm skittered from his back around to the front of his belly, gripping weakly for twenty seconds before ebbing away. When one mentions (during teaching HCPs) that some women undergo labour ‘nearly as a sexual experience’, part of the female students tend to react with a mixture of disapproval and denial.