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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

Ina May Gaskin

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.
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Beginning Extraordinary Good Throughout
In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
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Accuracy Order Scientist
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
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Intuition Knows Needs
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
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
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
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
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
I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.
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Common People Sense Thinking
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
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
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Forget Humor Labor Sense
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.
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Baby Birth Relaxation
It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
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Easy Nice Scare

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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