Ina May Gaskin Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

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

  Ina May Gaskin

  Looks, Birth, Goddess

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

  Ina May Gaskin

  Sense Of Humor, Forget, Labor

• 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

  Comfort, Want, Might

• 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

  Mistake, Doctors, Physicians

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from Jun 28, 2012

• 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

  Lovers, Poor, Starting

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.216, Random House

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