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.
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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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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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.
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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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Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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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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In 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.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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 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.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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.
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