Ina may gaskin

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

Love her!

Believe you can do it. The thoughts you fill your head with manifest themselves into reality. Decide what you want, and do not let doubts or second guesses to weaken your resolve. Go in with the plan that you will birth your baby naturally, and work with your body to make it happen. Remember... Thousands of women have gone before you, thousands are birthing with you, and thousands will follow in your footsteps. You are not alone! It is my hope that every woman experiences the birth she has…

Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin, the original home-birth evangelist, is finally winning converts in the mainstream.

Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin The Nursing Mother’s Companion by Kathleen Huggins Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah J. Buckley Birthing from Within by Pam England & Rob Horowitz Spiritual Midwifery The Nursing Mother’s Companion Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The […]

Watching birth documentaries may not be what you think of when preparing for birth, but they may be surprising. Check out these beautiful and amazing ones.

The feature-length documentary BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN & THE FARM MIDWIVES tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed to a patch of rural Tennessee land. With Ina May as their leader, the women taught themselves midwifery from the ground up, and, with their families, founded an entirely communal, agricultural society called The Farm. They grew their own…

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.