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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.

Ina May Gaskin

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Baby Energym Out
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Common People Sense Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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