It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
INA MAY GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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