It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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.
More Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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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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The Creator is not a careless mechanic.
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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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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces.
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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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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’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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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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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.
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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know
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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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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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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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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Remember 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.
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