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.
INA MAY GASKINThe 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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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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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