There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
INA MAY GASKINGood 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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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’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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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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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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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Birth Matters… It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother’s bodies. It’s the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world.
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