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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.

Ina May Gaskin

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
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
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
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 GASKIN

Baby Impression Mean Mother
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
INA MAY GASKIN

Intuition Knows Needs
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
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
The 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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Birth Culture Way
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
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKIN

Chicken Country Hero People
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Average Baby Months Six
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
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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Body Doubt Ideas
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
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

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