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 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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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’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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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