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 GASKINIf a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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