When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKINWhy 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?
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need 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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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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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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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 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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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