Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
INA MAY GASKINWhy 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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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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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