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.
INA MAY GASKINIt is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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I 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.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn’t treating her right.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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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.
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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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