‘Masturbating is the new epidural’
Patricia van Liemt is a radio presenter, writer and mother of Maria (12) and Phaedra (9). Every Friday she writes striking, honest, funny and above all recognizable columns about her life and motherhood.
Okay. Hold on tight, because I’m going to throw it in right away: giving birth orgasmic. Yep, it’s exactly what you think it is. Ensuring an orgasm during childbirth. I first heard the term last week at a friend’s birthday.
Orgasmic birth
The sister of a niece of the friend in question had joined a so-called orgasmic birth movement. I myself was just talking to another friend, but I secretly put my ear to it; I wanted to know all about this. Especially after my two super plastic and medical caesarean sections.
“Secretly I put my ear to it. I wanted to know all about this”
I couldn’t have stood further away from giving birth naturally myself. After making a digital appointment with the hospital, I was in a sterile operating room a week later. I did hear the most beautiful sound in the world coming from behind a medical curtain in the form of baby crying. But otherwise, delivery via caesarean section including epidural in a hospital is not exactly natural.
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Natural pain reliever
Well, back to the very fascinating conversation the women next to me had, because that’s where I heard the already legendary words: “Masturbating is the new epidural.” You understand that at that moment I apologized to my interlocutor and joined the other two women in order to concentrate one hundred percent on this conversation.
In which one of the two managed to tell that orgasms occur more often during childbirth anyway. Um. How? It is from this line of thinking, orgasm as a natural pain reliever, that a movement has emerged that encourages women to masturbate when contractions become more intense.
Somehow I understand this reasoning, but I still have some organizational objections, because would you dare to ask the obstetrician or gynecologist for a moment of privacy because you want to masturbate? I won’t make it a secret that I’m secretly quite happy that I’ve got all these choices behind me, literally including the epidural.
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