Posts tagged “ina may gaskin”
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Ina May Gaskin on Feministing
January 6, 2012
“‘Sisterhood is powerful.’ I was experiencing those three words as a new mother because I was realizing that isolated, I had no power.”
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Check out Ina May Gaskin’s acceptance speech for the Right Livelihood Award
December 13, 2011
The 2011 Right Livelihood AwardsSpeech by Ina May Gaskin5 December 2011
It is a great honor to have been chosen as the first midwife to receive the Right Livelihood Award. In accepting this award, I feel a deep sense of responsibility to my fellow midwives throughout the world. Most of us necessarily share an awareness of powerful forces that now threaten the continued existence of the profession of midwifery in many parts of the world. Rates of cesarean section are rising rapidly in most countries, far beyond the upper limits recommended by the World Health Organization. As cesarean rates increase, rates of maternal death and serious injury rise as well, and women’s fears of birth increase. At the same time, timehonored knowledge and skills begin to vanish. I have visited private hospitals in Brazil where the cesarean rate was 95%, because women (and their doctors) had become so afraid of the normal process of birth that the cesarean became the default.When surgical and technological interventions in birth become the norm rather than the exception, the profession of midwifery loses its basis for existence, and obstetrics itself no longer encompasses the skills and knowledge that were once considered essential competencies of the profession.
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Ina May Gaskin accepts Right Livelihood award
December 8, 2011
Right Livelihood prize winner Ina May Gaskin, right, founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee, USA, receives her prize from prize founder Jakob von Uexkull, left, in Stockholm, Sweden Monday Dec. 5 2011, "for her whole-life’s work teaching and advocating safe, woman-centred childbirth methods."Tags: birth matters, ina may gaskin, laureate, right livelihood, sweden
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Ina May Gaskin on loss of knowledge regarding natural childbirth
November 8, 2011
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Ina May Gaskin’s Right Livelihood Award reported on ERGOparent
November 8, 2011
”A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so. Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.”
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Birth Matters reviewed in Yes! Magazine
October 21, 2011
“Gaskin articulates our culture’s failure to understand the impact of mind-body connection as it relates to healthy, normal birthing. She marvels that this disconnect prevents us from appreciating how fear and adrenaline, both of which are heightened in the hospital setting, disrupt the delicate cocktail of natural hormones essential to coordinating effective contractions, cervical dilation, and birth. “
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Ina May Gaskin on Workingmums
October 6, 2011
“’I enjoyed the labour process,’ she adds. ‘It was only when I was tied down and it became like some sort of medieval torture chamber that it became a negative experience. Then the baby was kept from me for the first day and when I was given her I did not feel the instincts I should have felt.’”
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Ina May Gaskin celebrated in the Herald-Tribune
October 4, 2011
“I encourage people to read this most recent work, describing the evolution of our maternity care system, and the path we must take to improve it, not only for the highest good of our mothers and babies, but for nations worldwide that strive to replicate our model of care.”
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Ina May Gaskin speaks on the effect of fear in childbirth
September 7, 2011
Ina May Gaskin, author of Birth Matters, talks about childbirth on One World Birth. She speaks of how a scared person near a woman in labor delays the birth on a hormonal level.
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Ina May Gaskin interview on hipmama.com
September 6, 2011
Listen to Ina May Gaskin, the “modern mother of authentic midwifery”, talk about her new book Birth Matters on Hipmama.com radio. Ina May Gaskin has changed notions about midwifery through her forty years of practice and her substantial writings, and in this interview she passes on her knowledge.
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