Ina May Gaskin Quotes

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

Let your monkey do it.

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

The 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 gratitude in a way no words can.

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.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

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.

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.

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's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

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

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.

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

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.