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 GASKINAsk the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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