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The Miracle of Motherhood Your Way
By Christiane Northrup — 2012
Even though I had spent much of the five years prior to my daughter Annie’s birth delivering babies and marveling at how infinitely varied were the ways in which their mothers responded to them, I was completely unaware of what my own response would be.
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