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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

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
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
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKIN

Forget Humor Labor Sense
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Moose Pregnancy
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
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
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
Good 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 GASKIN

Beginning Extraordinary Good Throughout
I 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 GASKIN

Common People Sense Thinking
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
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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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
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
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 Matter Nutrition
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
INA MAY GASKIN

Earthquake Law Mother

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

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