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 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 GASKINA society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so.
INA MAY GASKINWhy 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 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 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 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 GASKINGood 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.
INA MAY GASKINWhenever 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 GASKINIf a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKINEven 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 GASKINI 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.
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 GASKINThere is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
INA MAY GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKINThe energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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.
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