The New Story about Birth is wet, wild and sexy. Intimate, untamed and undisturbed. Birth, like sex, is an altered state - When we don’t interfere with the magnificent design of birth. When a birthing woman feels safe, unobserved, undisturbed and free to follow her innate body wisdom, her body starts releasing a fine combination of hormones, including oxytocin and beta-endorphin, which lead her into an altered state or birth trance. This state is essential to the optimal unfolding of birth. Oxytocin, also known as the hormone of love and bonding, is also released during arousal and orgasm, stimulating that feeling of closeness to our partners. After birth, the body is flooded with the most amount of oxytocin a woman will ever experience in her life! This enables her to fall in love and bond deeply with her baby. Join Sheila Kamara Hay and Samara Concepción for a juicy conversation about the importance of integrating pleasure into birth and birth preparation. We’ll be exploring how this benefits the health and well-being of women, babies, families and therefore, society as a whole.

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