Ina May GaskinWhy 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?363Love
Ina May GaskinWhy should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't. ✨ FaceBook post byIna May Gaskin from May 05, 2012376HumanityReading
Ina May GaskinWhen 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 Ga… ▶343Reading
Ina May GaskinWhy 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 f… ▶321Reflection
Ina May GaskinMany 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. ✨ Ina May Gaskin (2011). Birth Matters… ▶323DeathTruth
Ina May GaskinAsk the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know324Politics
Ina May GaskinWhy in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.324Thought
Ina May GaskinI 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 en… ▶379Life
Ina May GaskinWhen 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, becaus… ▶358Politics
Ina May GaskinIt will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight. ✨ Ina May Gaskin (2009). Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding: From the Nation's Le… ▶281Sadness
Ina May GaskinIf you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken. ✨ Ina May Gaskin (2010). Spiritual Midwifery, p.234, Book Publishing Company358HumorReading
Ina May GaskinThe Creator is not a careless mechanic. ✨ Ina May Gaskin (2010). Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, p.141, Random House282Love
Ina May GaskinDon't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.282Humor
Ina May GaskinThe energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.271Death
Ina May GaskinLet your monkey do it. ✨ Ina May Gaskin (2011). Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta, p.38, Pinter & Martin Publishers337Thought
Ina May GaskinBirth 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 impressi… ▶282DeathTime
Ina May GaskinSimply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people… ▶3510Humanity
Ina May GaskinBreast 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 … ▶241Love
Ina May GaskinEven if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.3310LifeThought
Ina May GaskinIt's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it. ✨ FaceBook post byIna May Gaskin from May 04, 2014242Reading
Ina May GaskinI 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 m… ▶254PoliticsThought
Ina May GaskinWhen you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.266Thought
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 ther… ▶267HumanityThought
Ina May GaskinIf a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.212Humanity
Ina May GaskinThe 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 (2011). Birth Matte… ▶213DeathHumanity
Ina May GaskinThe suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and grati… ▶258HumanityLifeLove
Ina May GaskinSquat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly. ✨ Ina May Gaskin and the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project Focus on High U.S. Maternal Mortality Rates. Democracy Now!… ▶214DeathTime
Ina May GaskinWhen 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. ✨ FaceBook post byIna May Gaskin from M… ▶247HumanityLifeReading
Ina May GaskinIt does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him. ✨ Ina May Gaskin (2010). Spiritual Midwifery, p.193, Book Publishing Company228Reading
Ina May GaskinGardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they shoul… ▶173Humanity
