If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
INA MAY GASKINI think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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 Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him.
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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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