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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

Ina May Gaskin

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKIN

Boss Country People Want World
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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Health Important Mind
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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Baby Brave Men
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
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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Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
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
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
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
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Birth Culture Way
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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Body Doubt Ideas
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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Chicken Country Hero People
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
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Intuition Knows Needs
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
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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Baby Mom Powerful
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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Birth Men Uterus

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