Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
INA MAY GASKINThe energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
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In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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 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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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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Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
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The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
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Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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