"When women understand what?s available to us at birth, then we won?t ever give that over to an expert? the birth power, the orgasmic power that?s in our bodies. When you meet a woman who has had an ecstatic birth, you can?t talk her into taking drugs that aren?t good for her body. You can?t talk her into a hysterectomy that she doesn?t need. You can?t talk her into a crummy diet. She?s come home to her body. She knows what this body is capable of. She loves this body. This body loves her. And there?s nothing like the transformation available at birth to nail that in there in such a way that she becomes illuminated, because she?s a channel for life. And then she becomes a channel for life in all its forms."
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"What we?re finding is that it does matter?it absolutely does matter?how somebody comes into the world. And it doesn?t mean all babies should be born this way or that way. It just means that we have to pay attention and recognize that those babies are having experiences. And the way that birth happens when it?s left to happen naturally, without drugs and without forceps, is really what the baby?s body is expecting. There?s a biological readying that?s happening. So it?s incredibly important that we start thinking about this time period in a new way, and we start caring for moms and babies and families around the birth experience in much more thoughtful and mindful ways than we are doing right now."
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