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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.

Ina May Gaskin

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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Common People Sense Thinking
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Beginning Extraordinary Good Throughout
It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKIN

Easy Nice Scare
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Giving Impact Mind
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
INA MAY GASKIN

Intuition Knows Needs
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Energym Out
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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Members Previously Should Skills
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Birth Relaxation
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Impression Mean Mother
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Accuracy Order Scientist
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 GASKIN

Brave Mad People
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKIN

Forget Humor Labor Sense
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKIN

Average Baby Months Six
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I’m sure that it doesn’t.
INA MAY GASKIN

Creation Matter Nutrition
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Elephant Pregnancy Thinking

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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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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