The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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