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Ina May Gaskin

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
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Health Important Mind
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Baby Energym Out
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
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
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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Baby Birth Relaxation
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

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