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 GASKINIt does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Matters… It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother’s bodies. It’s the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world.
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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.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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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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