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.
INA MAY GASKINWhen you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don’t know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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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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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.
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