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.
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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It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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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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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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