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.
INA MAY GASKINYou 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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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 will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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