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.
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.
If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.
Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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.
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.
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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.
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.
It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.
When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.
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.
Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
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.
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
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?
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.
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
