If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKINWhy 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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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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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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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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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Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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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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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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