It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
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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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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