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 GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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