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 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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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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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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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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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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Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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 does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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