If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKINIf you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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 GASKINBirth 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 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.
INA MAY GASKINWhen you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKINIn 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.
INA MAY GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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 GASKINIt’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKINThe 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 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.
INA MAY GASKINPregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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 GASKINIt does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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
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