Orgasmic Birth

Are you preparing for birth… or just planning a wedding-level event? In this powerful and eye-opening conversation, Debra Pascali-Bonaro is joined by Nina Spears, founder of Baby Chick, to explore why so many families spend hundreds of hours planning weddings—but only a fraction of that preparing for birth and postpartum. Together, they dive into what  actually  creates a positive, empowered, and...

What if birth began long before labor ever started? In this powerful conversation, Pauline Goossen shares her conscious conception journey, the intentional preparation she and her partner made before pregnancy, and the deeply embodied birth of her breech baby. Together, Pauline and Debra explore cycle wisdom, tantra, oxytocin, privacy in labor, and the transformational power of surrender. Pauline...

In this episode of The Orgasmic Birth Podcast, Debra Pascali-Bonaro speaks with Joni Edelmann, a birth guide, educator, and former labor and delivery nurse who brings together science, sacredness, and decades of birth experience. Together, they explore how safety, nervous system regulation, privacy, and trust can create the conditions for ecstatic birth in any setting, including the hospital. Joni...

In this episode, Debra Pascali-Bonaro speaks with Josefina Schiller, a mother, singer, doula, translator, and host of Café Comparto Birth Café, about how birth, motherhood, sexuality, loss, and healing are deeply connected. Josefina shares two powerful home birth stories, including a 96-hour labor supported by her community in southern Spain, and reflects on how birth helped her heal ancestral and...

In this bold and deeply informative episode of the Orgasmic Birth Podcast, Debra Pascali-Bonaro sits down with pelvic floor expert Jana Danielson to challenge long-held myths about women's bodies, postpartum healing, and pleasure. From incontinence to pain during sex to diminished orgasm, many women are told these experiences are "normal" after birth. Jana offers a powerful reframe: they may be co...

In this heartfelt episode, Debra Pascali-Bonaro welcomes author, mother, and doula Maris Young , whose third birth unfolded in the most surprising and beautiful way — as an  orgasmic birth . After a breech birth with her second baby, Maris entered her third pregnancy with a clear intention: to reframe the sensations of birth and discover how pleasurable they could be. Through mindset work, daily p...

In this heartfelt episode, Debra Pascali‑Bonaro sits down with birth doula and retired professional women's football champion, Girl Scout, and chef, Tarah Alexis of Nurturing Embrace Doula Services. Tarah shares how a surprising C‑section birth, witnessing her niece and nephew arrive earthside, and a "divine appointment" with a pregnant stranger on a plane all led her to answer her calling as a do...

What if preparing for birth could also prepare you for a lifetime of deeper intimacy, healing, and connection—for you and for your children? In this powerful conversation, Debra talks with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, internationally recognized sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, bestselling author of Sex, God, and the Conservative Church and Shameless Parenting, and founder of Inanna Rising. T...

In this episode of Orgasmic Birth: The Podcast, Debra welcomes Maranda Bower, who shares her raw journey through postpartum depression, anxiety, autoimmune challenges, and triumph after four births. Maranda reveals how functional nutrition revolutionized her healing, turning depletion into energy, desire, and joy via her Postpartum Restoration Method—now training providers worldwide. Together, the...

In this enlightening episode of Orgasmic Birth: The Podcast, Debra meets Thabata Devecchi, a prenatal educator and founder of Feeling Moms, who shares her powerful home birth story and how pleasure practices helped her turn pain into power. Thabata reveals how self-pleasure, embodied movement, sound, and safety transformed her birth experience. She describes using a vibrator during labor to soften...

In this powerful episode, Debra Pascali-Bonaro sits down with reproductive health coach and mom of three, Liya Teplitsky, to explore how mindset, nutrition, and intentional pleasure turned birth from excruciating pain into ecstatic orgasmic bliss. Liya shares her three home birth stories—from a long, painful first labor on a yoga mat to a painless second birth and finally an intentional orgasmic b...

What if maternal health goals expanded beyond "alive and healthy"? In honor of Maternal Health Awareness Day, Debra Pascali-Bonaro invites us to imagine a world where pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care are not only safe but also deeply respectful, emotionally whole, and infused with comfort and pleasure. In this moving solo episode, Debra shares her personal connection to the origins of Materna...

In this episode of the Orgasmic Birth Podcast, Debra Pascali-Bonaro sits down with Dr. Diane Mueller—board-certified sexologist, naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, and host of The Libido Lounge—to explore how pleasure can become your most powerful mindfulness practice and a lifeline for intimacy after baby. Dr. Diane shares how slowing down, savoring sensation, and weaving pleasure into everyday...

In this transformative episode of Orgasmic Birth: The Podcast, Debra Pascali‑Bonaro is joined by bestselling author and pleasure mentor Genevieve for a fierce, tender, and wildly honest story of birthing a 10‑pound baby at home in New York City.​ Genevieve entered pregnancy expecting soft, sensual, "bliss‑in‑the‑birth‑pool" vibes—only to meet a very different expression of pleasure: the raw, fiery...

Get ready to challenge the dominant narrative around birth in this deeply inspiring conversation with Australian midwife, researcher, and rebel, Dr. Melanie Jackson — host of The Great Birth Rebellion podcast. Melanie joins Debra Pascali‑Bonaro for a heartfelt and provocative exploration of what happens when we choose to birth outside the system — and within our power. Together, they unpack why mo...

Orgasmic Birth Story   Ep 170 Description:  "Embodiment only happens if you have a body, so if you have a physical shell, and that physical shell is showing you signs. That physical shell can be sore, it can be tender, it can ache, it can also feel good and nurtured and soft and warm." —Lisa Strohdach What if the secret to a more joyful birth and life isn't about pushing harder, but about tuning i...

Human Rights in Birth Series Ep 169 Description:  "Information is power. It will allow you to differentiate scaremongering and fear mongering and just detect the red flags, and that's important for you to advocate for yourself." —Maria Alejandra Cardenas  Have you ever felt sidelined in your pregnancy journey? A lot of women do. Navigating birth can feel like running up against a system that forge...

Series: Human Rights in Birth— Birth Options  "Birth is a powerful moment of human life. It deserves the care that honors your rights, your choices, and your profound capacity for strength, trust, and pleasure." —Debra Pascali-Bonaro   Ep 168 Description:    Every birth tells a story, but too often those stories are shaped by fear, misinformation, or lack of choice. Respectful, informed, and pleas...

Ep 167 Description:  "When you heal yourself, you can also influence the healing of your children. And I think every healing of oneself is a healing for the rest of the world." —Dr. Anemone Hedtstück   Feeling anxious about birth, or wondering if it's possible to actually look forward to the experience? You're not alone. So many parents-to-be carry quiet fears, old stories, and doubts about what b...

"I wish they would be less afraid... Instead of having health care, we have health scare. The things that make the baby usually help the baby come out. And if you didn't make the baby that way, the things with someone you love during the process of having the baby can really bring you from a place of fright to a place of delight.." —Theresa Lasbrey Peters "Pleasurable birth is when we accept the p...

Risk vs Pleasure Series Ep 165 Description:  "If you are focused on the risk, or you're worried or you're anxious about what's going to go wrong, that is taking up too much of your brain. We need to deal with it and put it into perspective so that we can clear the path to joy and pleasure." —Dr. Sara Wickham   Pregnancy is supposed to be a time of wonder, but too often the first word that comes up...

Ep 164 Description:  "The birthing process and the birthing journey is inherently a spiritual experience, and once we have divorced that spiritual aspect from child birthing, that's when we run into a lot of issues." —Zina Grace   Sometimes, the weight of old wounds and silence around sexuality can make it seem impossible to reclaim our sense of power and connection. There's a different way forwar...

Ep 149 Description:  "Women have the power to transform this world. If we really want to save our world and bring peace and prosperity, and harmony, we need to go the mother's way away from this male-dominated mode, which is not working. Let's save the world one orgasm at a time." —Ibu Robin Lim   Have you ever wondered about the untold stories hidden within the most intimate part of a woman's bod...

Orgasmic Birth Story Series  Ep 162 Description:  "Try and change your mindset, because we're taught that birth is painful and hard and scary and can't be fun." —Tara Muckerheide    Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) is more than a medical choice—it's a profound journey of bodily autonomy and healing. Every woman's birth story carries the potential to rewrite medical narratives that have historic...

Ep 161 Description:  "If we were born in a loving way into the world, that will change the future generations." —Magaly Buitrago   The moment of birth exists in a liminal space between worlds, where science and mystery intertwine. No technology can fully capture the mystery of bringing human life into existence. And in this critical moment, women become portals of creation, simultaneously vulnerab...