It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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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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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 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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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