Sheila Kitzinger Quotes
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For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do…
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In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not…
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In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradication…
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In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an…
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Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in!
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In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a…
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All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence ,…
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Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women.…
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In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has…
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