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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.

Ina May Gaskin

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
INA MAY GASKIN

Boss Country People Want World
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
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
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?
INA MAY GASKIN

Members Previously Should Skills
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
INA MAY GASKIN

Earthquake Law Mother
If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Goddess Looks
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 GASKIN

Home Needs Running
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Health Important Mind
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 GASKIN

Birth Culture Way
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
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Mom Powerful
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Differences Mother
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Men Uterus
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKIN

Chicken Country Hero People
The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Moose Pregnancy
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKIN

Forget Humor Labor Sense

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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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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