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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.

Ina May Gaskin

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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Giving Impact Mind
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?
INA MAY GASKIN

Members Previously Should Skills
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 GASKIN

Moose Pregnancy Thinking
I 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 GASKIN

Brave Mad People
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Elephant Pregnancy Thinking
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Men Uterus
It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKIN

Easy Nice Scare
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKIN

Chicken Country Hero People
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKIN

Average Baby Months Six
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKIN

Body Doubt Ideas
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Culture Way
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Birth Relaxation
The 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 GASKIN

Home Needs Running
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Accuracy Order Scientist
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Energym Out

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 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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