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How likely is it that you'll be present when I give birth? * If not, who will be there instead? * Can I meet all of your partners? * What is your policy on ultrasound? * What forms of pain relief do you recommend? * How many women in your practice give birth without pharmacological pain relief? * What do you think about doulas? * How often am I likely to see you while I'm in labor? * What prenatal tests do you do routinely? * What labor pro..
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Can I drink and eat in labor? * If I go into labor, check in to the hospital, and my labor slows down before I get very far, can I go home? * What is your induction rate? What methods do you use? * Can I walk around in labor? * Is there a time limit for labor? How long can I push? * Can I choose the position for giving birth? Can I give birth on my hands and knees if I like that position? * What is your cesarean rate? * This may seem a pers..
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In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said it very eloquently: "My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness."
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Midwives provide all the prenatal care healthy women need. The midwifery ideal is to work with each woman and her family to identify her unique physical, social, and emotional needs. In general, midwifery care is associated with fewer episiotomies, fewer instrumental deliveries, fewer epidurals, and fewer cesarean sections. Midwives are trained to identify the relatively small percentage of births in which complications develop and to refer..
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our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
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in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force.
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This means that most of the births they have seen were to women on epidurals lying still during labor, waiting for it all to be over. Seeing this kind of birth over and over again causes a subconscious imprint on the mind, and many women develop enough fear of the pains of childbirth that they block the messages their bodies give them about other positions they might take in labor. Others may simply fear diverging from the norm. A woman in ..
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Marie Striekwold-Ebben, passed along this piece of wisdom: "Even if you don't have much money, keep in mind that the bedroom is the most important room in the house. Love and sadness are shared under the sheets, and you hope that your children will come into the world in your bedroom and that you will leave the world there."
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Where the techno-medical model of birth reigns, women who give birth vaginally generally labor in bed hooked up to electronic fetal monitors, intravenous tubes, and pressure-reading devices. Eating and drinking in labor are usually not permitted. Labor pain within this model is seen as unacceptable, so analgesia, and anesthesia are encouraged. Episiotomies (the surgical cut to enlarge the vaginal opening) are routinely performed, out of a b..
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emphatically, that I was. After that I decided not to feel sorry for myself or
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Mother's milk is soul food for babies. The babies of the world need a lot more soul food.
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The] President seems a bad edition of a Polish King.
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Constitution of 3 May 1791 |
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the last will and testament of the expiring Fatherland.
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Constitution of 3 May 1791 |
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There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.
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Julian May |
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Is it not meningitis?
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Louisa May Alcott |
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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May |
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O month when they who love must love and wed.
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May |
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As full of spirit as the month of May.
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No doubt they rose up early to observeThe rite of May.
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In beauty as the first of May.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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More matter for a May morning.
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May |
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Another May new buds and flowers shall bring:Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?
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For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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Among the changing months, May stands confestThe sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
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For every marriage then is best in tune,When that the wife is May, the husband June.
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May |
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Rollo May |
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Rollo May |
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Rollo May |
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There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no."
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Rollo May |
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I believe it is clearly in our national interest to remain a member of the European Union.
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Theresa May |
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You can judge me by my record.
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Theresa May |
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If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere.
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Theresa May |
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In relation to the Conservatives' policy on social care costs] Nothing has changed.
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Theresa May |
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Terrorism breeds terrorism.
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Theresa May |
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I enjoy cooking, which has a benefit, you get to eat it as well as make it.
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Theresa May |