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 does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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