Posts tagged “ina may gaskin”
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TIME Magazine interviews Ina May Gaskin
May 25, 2011
“Gaskin’s methods have the respect of clinicians around the world (there is even an obstetric maneuver named after her). Now 71, she is credited with reviving what was essentially a dead profession in the U.S., inspiring scores of women to enter the field and helping found the Midwives Alliance of North America. But even while midwives attend more births in the U.S. — about 7.5% in 2008 — they’re finding it increasingly hard to get practice agreements with doctors and hospitals. In her latest book, Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta (Seven Stories, April 2011), Gaskin argues that America needs midwives more than ever.” — TIME Magazine
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Ina May Gaskin’s book Birth Matters “truly delivers”
May 25, 2011
“In the new book Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta by Ina May Gaskin, you’ll learn that having a baby can be empowering, exhilarating, and — believe it or not — it could be pain-free … For both new moms and mothers of experience, Birth Matters truly delivers.” — Eagle Tribune
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Ina May Gaskin One-Day Workshop and Booksigning at New York Open Center
May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011, 10:00AM-5:30PM, Ina May Gaskin will be at the New York Open Center sharing stories of her birthing experiences, drawn from her past three and a half decades at the Farm Midwifery Center, and talk about techniques she and her colleagues learned from traditional, indigenous midwives from all over the world. The workshop is recommended for women, couples and all people interested in natural childbirth. Following the workshop, Gaskin will be signing copies of her book Birth Matters: How What We Don’t Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us. Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth. Registration for members is $130, nonmembers $140 Location: New York Open Center, 22 E. 30th St., NY, NY 10016.
Tags: birth matters, farm midwifery center, ina may gaskin, new york open center, nonfiction, signing, workshop
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New review of Birth Matters: “a picture of Ina May’s vision”
May 9, 2011
“Birth Matters is truly a picture of Ina May Gaskin’s vision, benefiting from her long career as a midwife and from her unique position in international childbirth issues. It shows her continuing passion for mothers and babies, as well as her commitment to advocating for women’s rights in all areas. Birth Matters is a must read for every woman – before they become mothers, after they fall pregnant, as their children grow – and even if they choose never to become a mother. It is a powerful book you will read and pass on to your mother, sister, midwife, and obstetrician. This book has the potential to open awareness and usher in change that brings a better future for mothers, babies, and families everywhere.”
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Interview with Ina May Gaskin on the International Day of the Midwife
May 9, 2011
“We teach other women that it is a fine thing to have a female body and how not to fear it. We need to teach our sisters the real dangers that are out there, because there are plenty of powerful entities in our society that seek to profit from the fears that are so easy to exploit in young women who believe most of the negative stuff that is pumped in our mainstream culture.”
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“The Other Labor Struggle”
May 6, 2011
““It is simply unacceptable that a U.S. woman giving birth today has a greater chance of dying than her mother did,” Gaskin concludes, noting that while anecdotes about maternal mortality are widely available, most states fail to collect data about women who die in childbirth. Indeed, Gaskin’s outrage is palpable as she reports that only six of the 50 states require hospitals to report deaths during childbirth to the Centers for Disease Control. Change is clearly needed. Can anyone concerned with perpetuating the human race possibly disagree?”
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Ina May Gaskin in the Daily Beast: “Doctors Need Midwives”
May 5, 2011
“Women’s bodies are not lemons. The creator is not a careless mechanic. The same process that has brought hundreds of thousands of years of human beings to earth can continue to do so today. The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.”– Ina May Gaskin
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UTNE Reader reviews Birth Matters
April 27, 2011
“Ina May Gaskin is the godmother of modern midwifery, having honed her natural-birth techniques at the pioneering Tennessee intentional community The Farm. Birth Matters assembles her lifetime of accumulated wisdom into a book that is equal parts birth stories, critique of the medical status quo, and passionate plea for improving the birth experience—for mothers, babies, and their families. “Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world,” writes Gaskin, and I think everyone who’s been born would agree.”
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Ina May Gaskin in Colorlines
April 15, 2011
Before Medicaid was established in the 1960s, women of color and low-income women had little access to hospital birth because they couldn’t afford to pay for it. In the rural South, midwifery thrived until the ’70s and ’80s. Women of color in urban cities in the North moved into the hospitals more quickly, in part because laws outlawing midwives were enacted more quickly there and in part because the teaching hospitals in these areas wanted more birthing women to learn on. One doctor even paid immigrant women to birth at his Chicago hospital, according to Gaskin. Once Medicaid was enacted and provided reimbursement for obstetricians and hospital birth, it signaled the end of the midwifery era, as doctors made the final push to bring all of birth into their domain in the hospital now that they were guaranteed payment for the services.
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Elevate Difference reviews Birth Matters
April 15, 2011
Gaskin brought to her writing a powerful feminist stance and a tremendous feeling of sisterhood. She does not only claim to believe in women; she lives this message. Her unwavering trust in women’s bodies and capacities to make the right choices for them based on unbiased, accurate information felt every bit as empowering as I’m sure she meant it.
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