Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKINThere 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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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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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.
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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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