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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

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
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
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
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
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
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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Earthquake Law Mother
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Easy Nice Scare
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
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Baby Energym Out
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
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
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
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
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 Matter Nutrition

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