It’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKINIt’s easy to scare women. It’s even profitable to scare women… But it’s not nice, so let’s stop it.
INA MAY GASKINThe Creator is not a careless mechanic.
INA MAY GASKINIt does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
INA MAY GASKINGood 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.
INA MAY GASKINWhenever 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 GASKINIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
INA MAY GASKINAsk the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
INA MAY GASKINI 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 GASKINWhy 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?
INA MAY GASKINThe 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 GASKINThe 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 GASKINIf you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKINDon’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
INA MAY GASKINRemember 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 GASKINI 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 GASKINIf a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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