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?
INA MAY GASKINIn 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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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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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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