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.
INA MAY GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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.
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