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 GASKINIf you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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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 Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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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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