It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKINPregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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 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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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