Simply 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 of that society – to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Ina May Gaskin

Simply 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 of that society – to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

— Ina May Gaskin

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

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

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.

— Ina May Gaskin

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

— Ina May Gaskin

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?

— Ina May Gaskin

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.

— Ina May Gaskin

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

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

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

— Ina May Gaskin

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

Let your monkey do it.

— Ina May Gaskin

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
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