Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKINA 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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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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