Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKINIn 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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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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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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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 you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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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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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 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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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