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 GASKINI 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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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 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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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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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 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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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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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