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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.

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
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
INA MAY GASKIN

Brave Mad People
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Intuition Knows Needs
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
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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Giving Impact Mind
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
In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
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Accuracy Order Scientist
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Forget Humor Labor Sense

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