It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
INA MAY GASKINThe way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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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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Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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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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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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