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Optimizing the Ecstasy

The following suggestions will help a woman to use her hormonal blueprint and so optimize the experience and safety for herself and her baby. Remember that birth is ‘orgasmic in its essence’85 so that conditions for birth are ideally as close as possible to conditions for lovemaking.

Take responsibility for your health, healing, and wholeness throughout the child-bearing years
Choose a model of care that enhances the chance of a natural and undisturbed birth (eg home birth, birth center, one-on-one midwifery care).
Arrange support according to individual needs; trust, a loving relationship, and continuity of care with support people are important.
Consider having an advocate at a hospital birth- a private midwife or doula is ideal.
Ensure an atmosphere where the laboring woman feels safe, unobserved, and free to follow her own instincts
Reduce stimulation of the neocortex (rational mind) by keeping lighting and noises soft, and reducing words to a minimum.
Cover the clock and any other technical equipment.
Avoid drugs unless absolutely necessary.
Avoid procedures (including obvious observations) unless absolutely necessary.
Avoid caesarean surgery unless absolutely necessary.
Don’t separate mother and baby for any reason, including resuscitation, which can be done with the cord still attached.
Breastfeed and enjoy it!
Giving birth is an act of love, and each birth is unique to the mother and her baby. Yet we also share the same womanly physiology, and the same exquisite orchestration of our birthing hormones. Our capacity for ecstasy in birth is also both unique and universal, a necessary blessing that is hard-wired into our bodies, yet that requires, especially in these times, that we each trust, honor, and protect the act of giving birth according to our own instincts and needs.

Dutch professor of obstetrics G. Kloosterman offers a succinct summary, which would be well placed on the door of every birth room:

Spontaneous labour in a normal woman is an event marked by a number of processes so complicated and so perfectly attuned to each other that any interference will only detract from the optimal character. The only thing required from the bystanders is that they show respect for this awe-inspiring process by complying with the first rule of medicine--nil nocere [Do no harm].86