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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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.
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When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
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