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Jul 2017
1h 12m

Sex, Coffee & Chocolate While Pregnant, ...

BEN GREENFIELD
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https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/mamanatural For the last half-century, control over childbirth has been in favor of doctors. Many pregnancy guidebooks are conventional, fear-based, or written by male physicians deeply entrenched in the medical model... 
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