Birth Climax Feels Like An Orgasm
Chiqui Brosas on Dec 19 2007 at 8:33 am | Filed under: Childbirth
I want to make my pregnant students understand the mechanics of a woman’s birth organs, which is obviously the same sexual organ! Because of this, do not be surprised to know that there is a resemblance in the mechanics of giving birth and the sexual responsiveness.
To understand this let me give you a short simple anatomy of a womans birth organs. The uterus is a U shaped organ just in front of your navel. Dr. Bradley who loves to use simple terms calls it the “baby box” because it is the place that holds the baby inside of you. It is somewhat of a right angle to the birth canal funnel, where your baby will pass through. Below the baby box you will find the bladder that leads to another funnel opening outside your body called the urethra, from which you urinate. Behind the uterus is your rectum, I don’t have to explain what comes out of there by now you can guess. So, there are actually three openings in your perineum (that’s the area below on your skin surface that is between the birth canal and the rectum), the urethra, the birth canal and the rectum. The size of a non pregnant uterus is just as small as half your fist and it is made up of muscles.
Because the birth canal and the uterus are two separate compartments and at right angle to each other, your husband will not hurt your baby in love making. In a sexual climax or an orgasm, the uterus and the birth canal squeeze and relax, squeeze and relax. This can happen about four to twenty times. A climax is just a contraction of muscles. So don’t be surprised when you feel contractions when you are being intimate with your husband. These orgasms are not strong enough to trigger labor. On the other hand it can probably be beneficial in exercising the muscles to get it ready for true labor. So long as you have not been prohibited by your doctor to do love making with your husband, it is safe to do so up to your full term. You need to communicate with your partner the discomforts of the act so that your husband could be extra gentle and creative in finding the different comfortable positions you can use during that time.
Let me try to explain what happens in the woman’s body when she gets sexually excited. Everything below balloons up. What do I mean? The birth canal barrels outward twice or even trice its non excited size to allow your husband to go in comfortably. The expanded birth canal protects the bladder by bumping it outward and out of the way so that it does not get bruised during love making. Likewise the rectum is shoved back for protection.
As the birth canal barrels wider, it also elongates by around and inch on both ends. For protection to avoid friction, the exterior lips of your birth canal somewhat stiffens.
During the excitement, your uterus also balloons forward and moves upward towards your navel to allow more room for your birth canal and to get it out of the way to prevent it from getting battered during love making.
When a woman gets sexually excited, more blood goes to the birth canal and the uterus and this causes engorgement causing the canal to barrel outward and to elongate. After a climax the engorgement rapidly disappears.
It is amazing to realize that the very same thing happens when you are giving birth. It has been observed that some women have actually felt orgasm during birth! Wouldn’t you wish?