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.
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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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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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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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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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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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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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