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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Ina May Gaskin

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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Easy Nice Scare
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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Birth Men Uterus
If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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Birth Goddess Looks
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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Baby Brave Men
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Forget Humor Labor Sense
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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Health Important Mind
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Average Baby Months Six
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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Birth Culture Way
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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Baby Birth Relaxation
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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Brave Mad People
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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Baby Differences Mother
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Baby Energym Out
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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Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
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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Home Needs Running
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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Members Previously Should Skills

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