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Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.

Ina May Gaskin

If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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Birth Goddess Looks
Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
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Members Previously Should Skills
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Average Baby Months Six
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Baby Energym Out
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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Chicken Country Hero People
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
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Body Doubt Ideas
Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
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Giving Impact Mind
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
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Creation Matter Nutrition
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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Brave Mad People
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Forget Humor Labor Sense
You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
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Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
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Birth Culture Way
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.
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Baby Mom Powerful
A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so.
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Baby Differences Mother
I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Birth Relaxation

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.

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