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Pain to Pleasure, Tips for an Orgasmic Birth
Debra Pascali-Bonaro is a world-renowned inspirational speaker, podcaster, filmmaker, doula trainer, childbirth educator, and author. Debra’s latest book, an Amazon #1 New Release, The Ultimate Guide To Sex After Baby: Secrets to Love and Intimacy 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 Pascali-Bonaro is also Co-Chair of the International Childbirth Initiative and Chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative both of which promote safe, respectful childbirth 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” 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. Her newly launched podcast, Orgasmic Birth: The Podcast has opened to rave reviews. Join her as she breaks down, heals barriers, and opens the door to share secrets to more love and intimacy in birth and parenting.
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!
Incorporating Acupressure into Labor for
Optimal Results
Dr. Deb Davies, DACM, L.Ac. is passionately following her calling by supporting 1000's of families naturally throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journeys. She’s a Chinese medicine doctor, an educator, a mentor, a Best Selling author, a birth doula, and a mother. Deb created PUSH Professional’s online mentorship program for licensed acupuncturists that teaches them everything they’d want to know about pregnancy, birth & postpartum. Her mission statement is to empower pregnant couples to have safe and healthy pregnancies, births, and recoveries by offering natural options in healthcare. Dr. Deb’s goal would be to have an acupuncturist at every Labor & Delivery in hospitals around the world.
Breathing in Beauty
Dr. Amanda Ramirez, Doctor of Physical Therapy, specializes in all things breath, body and beauty. She uses physical therapy-based principles to support you as you optimize your function, fertility, beauty, appearance, and performance.
She received her doctorate degree from the University of Southern California and currently practices in Los Angeles. Fluent in both English and Spanish, in-person, she serves the Inglewood and Manhattan Beach communities and, virtually, her online courses are available to people worldwide. She specializes in orthopedics, pelvic health, feminine wellness, postpartum care, the lymphatic system and restorative reproductive medicine.
Everyone wants to Hold the Baby: Who will hold
the Mother?
Jabina Coleman is a United States Breastfeeding Committee Cultural Change Maker awardee, dynamic speaker, and leader and educator of maternal health. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Jabina has dedicated over a decade to serving women, children, and families locally and nationally. As the owner of Life House Lactation & Perinatal Services, she provides psychotherapy and lactation consultation services.
Jabina is the co-founder and president of Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color, providing resources and support to professionals and communities of color who are treating and dealing with the complications of perinatal mood disorders.
Jabina is the co-founder of Breastfeeding Awareness & Empowerment (BAE) an organization created in response to the public outcry surrounding adverse perinatal health outcomes for Black families in the United States and the founding member of the Maternal Wellness Village, whose mission is to function as an action-oriented task force provided support services to empower communities throughout the African Diaspora. Her professional experiences in hospital social work, community organizing and engagement, and private practice has drawn many to her for mentorship and leadership.
Jabina is the creator of “Everyone wants to hold the baby, who will hold the mother?®” A call to action highlighting the lack of support Black women and birthing folx are receiving before, during, and after pregnancy. This call to action addresses the maternal mortality crisis that is affecting Black women. It is educating medical professionals, birth workers, families, and communities on the importance of advocacy for equitable and safe maternal health practices. It is addressing breastfeeding and infant feeding choices and disparities. Lastly, it is holding legislators accountable for holding Black, Indigenous, and People of Color at the center of policymaking. Her work is grounded in reproductive justice and trauma-informed care.
Make no mistake, it is not just what she does, it is who she is! Guided by her lived and professional experiences she is committed to being a social change agent, and a leader on the frontlines closing the gaps in maternal health care.
To register for weekly BAE support groups, go to @BAE_hood
Communication Navigation: Active Decision Making in Prenatal Care
Brittany Sharpe McCollum, CCE(BWI), CD(DONA), CLC is a Perinatal Pelvic Biomechanics Educator and the owner of Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services based out of the greater Philadelphia PA area, providing childbirth education classes, birth doula services, and dynamic labor support and pelvic biomechanics training workshops for birth professionals and expectant parents. She has offered birth-related support for expectant parents since 2007 through in person and virtual group and self-paced childbirth education and birth doula support. Her approach focuses on developing advocacy skills for effective communication, utilizing movement in all labors to support progress, and understanding the importance of an individualized person-centered approach to childbirth.
Brittany also creates and facilitates continuing education workshops for clinical and non-clinical labor support providers on evidence-based fetal positioning and pelvic biomechanics and is honored to be a sought after speaker at international childbirth related conferences, including the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association Summit in 2018, the Evidence Based Birth conference in 2019, the Midwifery Forward 2020 Conference, the ICEA 2020 and 2022 Virtual Conferences, the Utah Doula Association Mini Conference, the ACNM Midwifery Day conference, and more. She is also a contributing author to the book “Baby Got VBAC: An Inspiring Collection of Wisdom for Better Births After Cesarean.”
Brittany lives in South Jersey with her partner and their four children. Check out her website for upcoming webinars, classes, workshops, conference events, and more at www.blossomingbelliesbirth.com and follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @blossomingbelliesbirth.
Trusting Birth: A Real discussion about VBAC, Breech and Twins
Stuart J. Fischbein MD is a community-based practicing obstetrician and an associate of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, published author of the book “Fearless Pregnancy, Wisdom & Reassurance from a Doctor, A Midwife and A Mom” and peer-reviewed papers Homebirth with an Obstetrician, A Series of 135 Out of Hospital Births and Breech birth at home: outcomes of 60 breech and 109 cephalic planned home and birth center births. Dr. Stu spent 24 years assisting women with hospital birthing and, for the last 12 years, has been a homebirth obstetrician who works directly with midwives. His website is www.birthinginstincts.com.
Dr. Stu travels around the world as a lecturer and advocate for reteaching breech & twin birth, respect for the normalcy of birth and honoring informed consent. Follow him on Instagram @birthinginstincts and at The Birthing Instincts Podcast with midwife Blyss Young on your smartphone app as he offers hope, reassurance and safe, evidence supported choices for those women who understand pregnancy is a normal bodily function not to be feared, simply desire common sense and who cannot find supportive practitioners for VBAC, twin and breech deliveries.
