That these Caesarian surgeries were done for the scheduling convenience of themselves or their doctors. When I asked them why, which I was prompted to do by Montagu’s book, most of the mothers told me in effect Have given birth in the past twenty years, over fifty percent of them had C-Sections. I've beenĬounting and it seems from my own experience that among young mothers of my acquaintance who The doctor tries to assist Nature with something it doesn't need assistance to do. What the man did with a scissors to the cocoon is what a doctor does with a scalpel to a woman’s body. Issue among many it allowed me to understand: the process of Caesarian births or C-Sections. This immediately caused me to remember what I learned from Touching, and one particular Into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom Tiny opening, were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly Restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the What the man, in his kindness and his goodwill did not understand was that the Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its lifeĬrawling around with a withered body and shriveled wings.

Would open, enlarge and expand, to be able to support the butterfly's body, andīecome firm. The man continued to watch because he expected that, at any moment, the wings The butterflyīut it had a withered body, it was tiny with shriveled wings. Help the butterfly: he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon. Gotten as far as it could and it could not go any further. Then, it seems to stop making any progress. It struggled to force its body through that One day, a small opening appeared in a cocoon a man sat and watched for Recently which showed beautiful images of butterflies and each photo had a portion of a story which What prompted me to do a review of this book was an email I received

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