Ina May Gaskin Quotes

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• 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

  Inspirational, Women, Giving

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 22, 2015

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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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Impact, Giving, Mind

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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. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Baby, Mean

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.1, Seven Stories Press

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• If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Looks, Birth, Goddess

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• 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.

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  Mother, Matter, Way

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Mar 06, 2014

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• Pregnant
  and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that
  gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental
  forces. 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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Law, Earthquakes

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company

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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. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. 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

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

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• The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Energy

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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

  Ina May Gaskin

  Men, Uterus, Birth

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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. 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 Gaskin

  Mother, Baby, Differences

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.1, Seven Stories Press

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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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Culture, Way, Birth

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.6, Seven Stories Press

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• Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know

  Ina May Gaskin

  Intuition, Needs, Knows

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• Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Sense Of Humor, Forget, Labor

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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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  Mom, Baby, Powerful

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• 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

  Confused, Giving, Mammals

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• Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Criticize, Awe

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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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Moose

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• When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained doctors, as it does around sympathetic women.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Doctors, Together, Males

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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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Health, Mind, Important

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Jun 09, 2014

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• It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Men, Brave

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.193, Book Publishing Company

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• 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.

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  Mother, Europe, Cesarean

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• 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

  Baby, Relaxation, Birth

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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.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Nice, Scare, Easy

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from May 04, 2014

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• 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.

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  Children, Rooms, Becoming

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.13, Book Publishing Company

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• The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Moose, Birth

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.141, Random House

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