Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKINThe 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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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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 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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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