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.
INA MAY GASKINI 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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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 energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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