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“Remember this…:Your body is not a *badly designed machine*. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceroses, elephants, moose, and water buffalo…”
I’m sure this doesn’t imply that women *never* need medical intervention. But it does seem they need it less often than offered.
— Apr 21, 2026 08:49AM
I’m sure this doesn’t imply that women *never* need medical intervention. But it does seem they need it less often than offered.
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Well I gave birth before finishing this book. And it was via emergency c-section. As much as you can try to prepare for the ideal, real life sometimes requires making compromises for the greater good. I spent so much time trying to prepare to surrender to contractions—I did not anticipate having to surrender to the process in other ways, although I did acknowledge I couldn’t control nor know how it would go.
— Aug 04, 2026 10:33AM
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Like 150 pages of positive birth stories? I’m down. Need these to keep in mind to balance out any negatives ones I hear…
— Mar 31, 2026 07:06PM