Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
INA MAY GASKINWhy 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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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 best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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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 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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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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 energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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