Remember this, for it is as true and 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 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 GaskinTags: birth childbirth midwifery
The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.
Sheila StubbsTags: life birth doctor midwifery intervention
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 GaskinTags: midwifery girl-power poppin-out-babies
One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.
Marsden WagnerIna May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.
Marsden WagnerShe was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best. She was not what I needed."
"Because I failed," whispered Alyce in the shadows.
"Because she gave up," continued the midwife. "I need an apprentice who can do what I tell her, take what I give her, who can try and risk and fail and try again and not give up...
Tags: midwifery trusting-youself
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
Ami McKayTags: life inspirational birth political midwifery homebirth
Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care from the home-birther. This is judgmental and vindictive. These doctors have decided that home birth is not safe, and by withholding prenatal care they are doing their best to make sure it is unsafe. Often it is lay midwives who step forward to fill the void and help eliminate the unnecessary dangers of home birth. They are essential for screening out women who really should not have a home birth. For considerably less money than a physician charges, they spend many more hours with a pregnant woman before, during, and after the birth. and in most places they courageously face the opposition of the established medical community.
Susan McCutcheonTags: midwifery homebirth midwives
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