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 GASKINIf you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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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 a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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