I’ve had one birth that was nearly orgasmic (I’m on my fifth baby) and it was my third–I had an epidural, but I still felt the contractions and everything, so not sure how well it worked. ) I was waiting for my doctor to answer his multiple pages/phone calls and had an attending waiting with me. She was stretching my perineum for me as we waited. I told her I needed to push, and she said, “Wait, wait…” so I waited… it was when she finally said, “Ok, go ahead and push when you feel the urge…” that it felt orgasmic. It was SO GOOD to finally be able to help baby come out, I could feel her moving out and it was wonderful.

I always say to people who haven’t had babies or to my husband, “It’s like when you have to poop, really bad, but can’t because someone is on the toilet. Then you finally can go, and it feels SO good you get the shivers… it was like that, but a lot more intense.”

I wouldn’t mind feeling that again.