Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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