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 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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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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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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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.
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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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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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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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It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
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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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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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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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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.
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If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
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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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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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