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 GASKINAsk the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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 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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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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 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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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