After a women has experienced the lessons of relationship to partners, to children, to her ever changing body, her hormones get spread throughout her body rather than just in her uterus. Her reproductive creative capacity changes from being other directed to self directed. Her hormones get redistributed from her reproductive organs all throughout her body. Women have a love affair with God. Birth, even though it is a class in separation, is connection elevated from the physical to the mental, emotional, and energetic levels.
Menstruation is also about birth.
Every month we give birth to our life blood. It is our reminder of our ability to give birth and about our connection to our creative endeavors in our world. Nurturing, physically is symbolized by the act of breastfeeding. Breatstfeeding is certainly physical connection. But anytime a woman nurtures another through a card, a smile, an encouraging word, a wonderful meal, a new shirt, the rent paid, she connects emotionally, mentally, even physically.