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.
INA MAY GASKINBirth 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.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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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 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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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