78 Quotes by Ina May Gaskin

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.

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

We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

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.

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

Let your monkey do it.

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

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