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 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.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Birth 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.
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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
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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.
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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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