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Ina May Gaskin Quotes
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It’s good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That’s what I want to know. (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman’s right to choose where she intends to give birth. (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can’t complain about being bored. (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you’ll find midwives in these hospitals, you’ll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you’ll see a lot less injury to mothers (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women’s bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women’s bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
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 (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Don’t criticize nature, stand in awe of it (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Don’t forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
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 (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Let your monkey do it (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
I 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 Gaskin Quotes)
The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It’s profitable to scare women about birth. But let’s stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
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 (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
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? (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can’t complain about being bored (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
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 (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused (Ina May Gaskin Quotes)
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