78 Quotes by Ina May Gaskin

Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.

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

We are, indeed, fully prepared to believe that the bearing of children may and ought to become as free from danger and long debility to the civilized woman as it is to the savage. – Thomas Huxley.

Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.

I kept thinking while I was pushing, I’m going to get huge. I’m going to get huge!” she said.

The strangest request I have encountered was that of a first-time mother who – just before pushing – asked her husband for a jar of peanut butter and proceeded to eat two heaping table-spoonfuls. She then washed the peanut butter down with nearly a quart of raspberry leaf tea and pushed her baby out. I was impressed.