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According to the Thai, pregnancy is like setting out in a little boat to cross an ocean. I am midway through this journey now, and it does sometimes seem as though I were far at sea, with no shore in sight, and only the fertile popple and swell of waves to accompany me toward some uncharted, inevitable land.
Conception and birth are as stubborn conditions of life as death itself. Combing to terms with the rhythms of women’s lives means coming to terms with life itself.
Margaret Mead
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Hegland, J. (1991). The Fifth Month. In: The Life Within. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0487-9_5
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