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

Ina May Gaskin

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
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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Body Doubt Ideas
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
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
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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Beginning Extraordinary Good Throughout
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
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
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
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
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Intuition Knows Needs
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
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
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
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
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
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

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

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