Ina May Gaskin - Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (2003)

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Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

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Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

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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.

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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

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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.

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Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.

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I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.

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