These Waters Run Deep
“When women had a place in medicine, it was in a people’s medicine. When that people’s medicine was destroyed, there was no place for women. The set of healers who became the medical profession was distinguished not so much by its association with modern science as by its associations with the emerging American business establishment. With all due respect to Pasteur, Koch and other great European medical researchers of the 19th century, it was the Carnegies and Rockefellers who intervened to secure the final victory of the American medical profession.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, “Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers” (via ynannarising)
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midwife-marlee:

A heart shaped placenta :)

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Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

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unicef: Stunting is what happens to a child’s brain and body when they don’t get the right kind of food or nutrients in the 1,000 days before their second birthday, including their mother’s pregnancy. SHARE this image if you think the world can do better than this! Learn more here: http://www.unicef.org/nutrition

unicef:

Stunting is what happens to a child’s brain and body when they don’t get the right kind of food or nutrients in the 1,000 days before their second birthday, including their mother’s pregnancy.

SHARE this image if you think the world can do better than this!

Learn more here: http://www.unicef.org/nutrition

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so-treu: soulbrotherv2: Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone else. And she helps him to see how beautiful he really, truly is.For years before they both achieved acclaim in their respective professions, good friends Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans wanted to collaborate on Chocolate Me!, a book based on experiences of feeling different and trying to fit in as kids. Now, both men are fathers and see more than ever the need for a picture book that encourages all people, especially kids, to love themselves. :D

so-treu:

soulbrotherv2:

Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs

The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He tells his mother he wishes he could be more like everyone else. And she helps him to see how beautiful he really, truly is.

For years before they both achieved acclaim in their respective professions, good friends Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans wanted to collaborate on Chocolate Me!, a book based on experiences of feeling different and trying to fit in as kids. Now, both men are fathers and see more than ever the need for a picture book that encourages all people, especially kids, to love themselves.

:D

(via ynannarising)

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Dar a Luz: Birthing our Semillita, our Warrior of Love: Tonalli

“It was interesting that often people would ask “cuando te vas aliviar?” as if I had been sick and after giving birth I would recover. I always preferred to use the phrase “dar a luz”. It literally means to give to light or bring to light and that’s what I was going to do. That’s what every mother does when they birth their children. We are givers of life and light.”

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

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radastheyscum: A fan shared this image with us and apparently, the police there have surrounded and cut off a neighborhood and no one can leave or enter it and services and food have been cut off, too. This mother has been separated from her child, so the father holds the baby up to the fence for her to breastfeed him. In Argentina, in ossequio al “piano federale” la Polizia ha collocato una recinzione perimetrale in un quartiere occupato e coloro che escono o sono già usciti non possono rientrare. Inoltre sono stati tagliarti i servizi e non lasciano passare cibo. Il luogo è presidiato da 70 poliziotti mentre attendono un rinforzo di altri 70. Gli occupanti delle case, assieme a molti abitanti del quartiere giunti in soccorso, insistono per rimanere.La giovane madre non viene fatta rientrare e il padre col bimbo non vengono fatti uscire dal perimetro. Questa è la condizione in cui la mamma può dare da mangiare al proprio bimbo. La vergogna di uno stato non ha geografie. “In Argentina, in accordance with the “Federal Plan” Police placed a perimeter fence in a busy neighborhood and those who are leaving or have already left can not return.Were also cut your services and will not let food. The place is manned by 70 policemen while waiting for a reinforcement of 70 others. The occupants of the houses, along with many local residents came to the rescue, insist to stay.The young mother is indented and the father with the child are not taken out from the perimeter. This is the condition where the mother can feed your baby. The shame of a state has no geography.”

radastheyscum:

A fan shared this image with us and apparently, the police there have surrounded and cut off a neighborhood and no one can leave or enter it and services and food have been cut off, too. This mother has been separated from her child, so the father holds the baby up to the fence for her to breastfeed him.

In Argentina, in ossequio al “piano federale” la Polizia ha collocato una recinzione perimetrale in un quartiere occupato e coloro che escono o sono già usciti non possono rientrare. 
Inoltre sono stati tagliarti i servizi e non lasciano passare cibo. Il luogo è presidiato da 70 poliziotti mentre attendono un rinforzo di altri 70. Gli occupanti delle case, assieme a molti abitanti del quartiere giunti in soccorso, insistono per rimanere.

La giovane madre non viene fatta rientrare e il padre col bimbo non vengono fatti uscire dal perimetro. Questa è la condizione in cui la mamma può dare da mangiare al proprio bimbo. La vergogna di uno stato non ha geografie.

“In Argentina, in accordance with the “Federal Plan” Police placed a perimeter fence in a busy neighborhood and those who are leaving or have already left can not return.
Were also cut your services and will not let food. The place is manned by 70 policemen while waiting for a reinforcement of 70 others. The occupants of the houses, along with many local residents came to the rescue, insist to stay.

The young mother is indented and the father with the child are not taken out from the perimeter. This is the condition where the mother can feed your baby. The shame of a state has no geography.”

(via fuckyeahbreastfeedingmamas)

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