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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.

Ina May Gaskin

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?
INA MAY GASKIN

Members Previously Should Skills
Good 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 GASKIN

Beginning Extraordinary Good Throughout
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
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 GASKIN

Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
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 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
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKIN

Chicken Country Hero People
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKIN

Forget Humor Labor Sense
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Brave Men
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Health Important Mind
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
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
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 energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Energym Out
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

Boss Country People Want World
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Differences Mother

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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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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