Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
INA MAY GASKINWhy should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
INA MAY GASKINWhen you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKINThe best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
INA MAY GASKINIt is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
INA MAY GASKINIf you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKINIt’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKINBirth 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.
INA MAY GASKINThe energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKINI 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.
INA MAY GASKINRemember 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.
INA MAY GASKINPregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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.
INA MAY GASKINIn 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.
INA MAY GASKINI had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
INA MAY GASKINIf a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKINI 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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