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.
INA MAY GASKINAsk the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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.
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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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