A mother-of-three has described the “evolution” of her birthing experiences, culminating in the “orgasmic” delivery of her third baby.
It started with a fear of childbirth. Clara Riba Domingo was terrified of the pain and trauma she was certain childbirth would bring. When she fell pregnant with her first child at 27, she began her research.
“I started working on my breathing and not allowing any pain to take over my body whenever I hurt myself, even just when I bumped my toe, for example,” the 34-year-old told Kidspot.
When she gave birth to her first child and her only daughter Sophia, now aged four, Clara found she could “cope with the pain if I went with it rather than resisted it”.
This paved a pathway towards a natural, ‘pain-free’ birth.
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For her second baby Luke, now aged two, Clara enlisted the help of a doula and gave birth at home. “I went to the next level. I had glimpses of what birth could potentially be,” she said.
With her third, Leo, Clara was determined to do it all on her own.
“I wanted the experience to be completely untouched and undisturbed. I wanted to go within myself as much as I could. Even having my husband there would be a distraction,” she said.