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Those changes can be both painful and seem endless but also can give life; a bit like child-birth.
Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Psalm 46 And Living After The Death Of A Loved One Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2011
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Finally, the birthrate of children falling in the United States because of hard economic times, and putting off child-birth has been going on in Russia, and other eastern european countries for a decade for the very reason that is now at our doorstep.
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In the other case, the girl was told by a school counsellor that she could die in child-birth.
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Along the way these same navel-gazing boomers acted as if they had discovered child-birth, and motherhood and fatherhood, etc., etc. churning out books and magazines and seminars and talks about their discoveries as they moved through life.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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Aside from that, I think it's true both of Sweden and the US (though more so in the US) that we don't value child-birth the way we should, given that politicians are always very concerned to have positive population growth.
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Those changes can be both painful and seem endless but also can give life; a bit like child-birth.
Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Psalm 46 And Living After The Death Of A Loved One Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2011
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My opinion is we are concieved violently, child-birth was violent to my body twice, give me a few days to look up the numbers but hella folk die violence
Running with the right pack Steven Barnes 2010
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In fact, he wrote, “The evidence shows that she is more likely to experience feelings of relief and happiness . . . child-birth and child-rearing or adoption may pose concomitant if not greater risks or adverse psychological effects.”
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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In the spring Pentfield takes Lashka down the creek to Siwash Pete's cabin where she wants to help Pete's wife, a Steward River woman, through child-birth.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .” 2008
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In fact, he wrote, “The evidence shows that she is more likely to experience feelings of relief and happiness . . . child-birth and child-rearing or adoption may pose concomitant if not greater risks or adverse psychological effects.”
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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