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 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 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 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 GASKINYou 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 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.
INA MAY GASKINWhy in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKINAsk the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
INA MAY GASKINPregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
INA MAY GASKINIf you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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 GASKINIt does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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 GASKINIf a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKINDon’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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 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.
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