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Partners, you’re needed: Simple ways to show up in birth

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Dear Reader,

How do we keep love, intimacy, and connection alive through pregnancy, birth, and those tender postpartum weeks?

In this week’s Orgasmic Birth Podcast episode, I’m joined by Tarah Alexis, a passionate birth doula, retired champion professional women’s football player, Girl Scout, and professional chef, and the heart behind Nurturing Embrace Doula Services. Tarah shares how her own C‑section birth, attending her niece and nephew’s births, and a powerful encounter with a pregnant woman on an airplane led her to answer a deeper calling to support families.​

We talk about:

  • What really happens when partners are unprepared—and how a doula can support both the birthing person and their partner.
  • Simple ways partners can engage all their senses to create a more intimate, grounded, and even orgasmic birth environment.
  • How everyday intimacy—hugs, cuddles on the couch, a glass of water offered with love—builds the foundation for a connected birth and postpartum.
  • Why planning your postpartum support team (meals, laundry, naps, helpers) is just as important as your birth plan.​

Tarah’s reminder is beautifully simple: “You can’t go wrong with hugs every time you come around.” The little things—the cuddle after the baby falls asleep, the “thank you for being here,” the hand on a cramping leg—become the big things.​

🎧 Listen now on our blog or your favorite platform to discover gentle practices to deepen your emotional and physical bond in pregnancy, birth, and beyond.​

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With pleasure,
Debra

Ready to pair this with birth prep that centers pleasure?

If this conversation speaks to you and you’re longing for birth preparation that honors your body, your sensuality, and your power, I’d love to invite you into Pleasurable Birth Essentials.

Inside this online childbirth class, you’ll learn:

  • The role of pleasure and birth hormones in easing labor sensations.
  • Comfort measures and positions for each stage of labor.
  • How to create a birth environment that delights your five senses.
  • Practices to deepen intimacy with your partner and yourself before, during, and after birth.​

Parents around the world call this class both birth‑ and life‑changing.

👉 Learn more and join us here:

​https://www.orgasmicbirth.com/pleasurable-birth-essentials​

With love and pleasure,
Debra

Debra Pascali-Bonaro

Debra Pascali-Bonaro is a world-renowned inspirational speaker, podcaster, filmmaker, doula trainer, childbirth educator, and author. Debra’s podcast, Orgasmic Birth heals barriers and opens the door to share secrets to more love and intimacy in birth and parenting. She brings together her passion for pleasure in every aspect of life with her Jersey-Girl attitude of talking about what no one is talking about! Debra is a mother, grandmother and featured expert in parenting journals and media around the world. Debra is also Co-Chair of the International Childbirth Initiative and Chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative both of which promote safe, respectful maternity care. She is a Lamaze International childbirth educator, birth and postpartum doula trainer with DONA International, Director of the award-winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret and co-writer of “Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth”, Author of The Ultimate Guide To Sex After Baby: Secrets to Love and Intimacy and the Founder & President of the revolutionary online childbirth class Pleasurable Birth Essentials which prepares expectant mothers, fathers, and partners to be positively prepared for birth and focuses on the intimate and sacred nature of birth. Debra’s passion comes from her over 30 years of working with women, men, midwives, doulas, physicians and nurses in over 40 countries bringing comfort, love, and pleasure to birth and life!

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