Ina may gaskin quotes

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

Are you ready to transmute your fear into confidence? feel deeply connected to soul, baby and partner? and be blissed out throughout your sacred pregnancy?

I think that women can be just completely surprised by the change in them from giving birth-you have something powerful in you-that fierce thing comes up-and I think babies need moms to have that fierceness-you feel like you can do anything and that’s the feeling we want moms to have.

I must say, I just recently just discovered what in the world Ina May Gaskin’s famous saying, “Your body is not a lemon”, really means. Sitting around talking with all my birthy friends at a dinner table right next to Ina May herself, no doubt, I got the answer.

Ina May Gaskin is a midwife, author, public speaker, and has been long-crowned the “most famous midwife in the world.” Ina May has been working as a midwife since 1971, where she began a midwifery center within the self-sustaining community that she helped found, known as “The Farm” in Summertown, Tennessee. Since beginning her career nearly 50 years ago, Ina