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Can Mindfulness Reduce Fear of Labour and Postpartum Depression?
By Luisa Dillner — 2017
Anxiety about labour–and what might come afterwards–causes stress for expectant mothers and increases risk in childbirth. But there could be a natural solution
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.