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.
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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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 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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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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 you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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