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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

Ina May Gaskin

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
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
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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Boss Country People Want World
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 Matter Nutrition
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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Chicken Country Hero People
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
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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Baby Impression Mean Mother
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Intuition Knows Needs
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
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Forget Humor Labor Sense
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
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.
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Elephant Pregnancy Thinking
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
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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Baby Mom Powerful
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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Moose Pregnancy Thinking

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

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