Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKINDon’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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’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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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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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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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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