Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
INA MAY GASKINWhy in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
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Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.
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I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.
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It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
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Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.
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Birth Matters… It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother’s bodies. It’s the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world.
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I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.
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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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