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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.

Ina May Gaskin

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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Birth Culture Way
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth Moose Pregnancy
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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Home Needs Running
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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Chicken Country Hero People
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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Baby Differences Mother
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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Baby Brave Men
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Average Baby Months Six
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
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Birth Men Uterus
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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Health Important Mind
If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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Birth Goddess Looks
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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Giving Impact Mind
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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Brave Mad People
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Baby Energym Out
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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Common People Sense Thinking
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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Moose Pregnancy Thinking
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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Members Previously Should Skills

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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