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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.

Ina May Gaskin

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
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
INA MAY GASKIN

Body Doubt Ideas
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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Birth Men Uterus
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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Moose Pregnancy Thinking
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know.
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Boss Country People Want World
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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Easy Nice Scare
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Average Baby Months Six
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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Chicken Country Hero People
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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Forget Humor Labor Sense
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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Brave Mad People
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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Health Important Mind
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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Baby Birth Relaxation
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
If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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Birth Goddess Looks
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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Common People Sense Thinking
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

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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