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Natural Birth
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Birth is experiential. You have to experience it to fully know it. An exercise such as Bellydance for birth embraced during pregnancy can act as a purposeful tool to help a woman before she steps in through the gateway of birth. One of the key elements of the birth dance is that it can help bridge the gap between the primal brain (which knows how to give birth) and the modern woman (who may need to be reminded of her instinctual capacity), assisting her to claim back her most basic and inherent
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― Dance of the Womb - The Essential Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth
― Dance of the Womb - The Essential Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth
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With this pregnancy, unlike my others, I was fully aware of the possibility of blissful, painless, potentially even orgasmic, and fully natural, unmedicalized childbirth from the beginning. After reaching my second trimester, I was relaxing in the bath after my children had gone to sleep, when suddenly I felt a profound connection with the little girl within me. She communicated to me how this birth was going to go. How it was going to feel. In essence, I knew she would pass easily out of my bod
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― Reclaiming My Birth Rights
― Reclaiming My Birth Rights
...April 07, 2012 to May 07, 2012...
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