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.
INA MAY GASKINIt is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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 energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so.
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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.
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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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.
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It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
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