Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Unknown
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Mark Twain
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
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E.B. White
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Fernando Pessoa
I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.
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Phil Lester
More Quotes By 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.
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?
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.
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.
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
