An Australian mom named Angela Gallo is advising women in the throes of labor to “touch themselves.”
According to Angela, masturbating to a point of orgasm can ease the pain.
In a shockingly honest post on her self-titled blog, Gallo shares details of her orgasmic birth with her second child.
The birth took place “in the comfort” of her home with the people she “loves most,” and she wrote that because of the safe environment her “surges felt COMPLETELY different.”
Angela felt “powerful” and “sensual,” and as she labored freely. Her husband suggested her to have sex. She opted to masturbate instead.
“Clitoral stimulation worked an absolute TREAT” Gallo wrote. “It shifted my focus to my vagina, to the energy brewing within me. It made me feel connected, and made me feel like I had some control over what I was feeling. The surges were much more manageable, and the rest between them was so much more enjoyable.”
This mom is sending shock waves through online parenting communities.
Well, it turns out that this isn’t a new idea. A childbirth educator and doula named Debra Pascali-Bonaro produced a documentary called Orgasmic Birth in 2008. While the film focused on how to make birth more pleasurable, it did also share the stories of some who orgasmed, cluing women into what Pascali-Bonaro said was the “best kept secret of childbirth.” Footage from the film was featured on ABC’s news magazine 20/20.
Also, in the film, Christine Northrup, an ob-gyn and author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, explains:
“When the baby’s coming down the birth canal, remember, it’s going through the exact same positions as something going in, the penis going into the vagina, to cause an orgasm. And labor itself is associated with a huge hormonal change in the body, way more prolactin, way more oxytocin, way more beta-endorphins–these are the molecules of ecstasy.”
