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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

Ina May Gaskin

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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Common People Sense Thinking
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
INA MAY GASKIN

Moose Pregnancy Thinking
If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Goddess Looks
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 GASKIN

Baby Birth Relaxation
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Creation Especially Germinating Less Planted
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 GASKIN

Birth Culture Way
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Differences Mother
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Brave Men
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
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
INA MAY GASKIN

Birth Men Uterus
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
INA MAY GASKIN

Brave Mad People
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 GASKIN

Home Needs Running
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
INA MAY GASKIN

Baby Energym Out
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.
INA MAY GASKIN

Accuracy Order Scientist
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKIN

Average Baby Months Six
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

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

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