Housewife Mafia - Ina May Gaskin

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Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin is a powerful advocate for a woman’s right to
give birth without excessive and unnecessary medical intervention.

Her clinical midwifery skills have been
developed entirely through independent
study and apprenticeship with other
midwives around the world.

Ina May developed the Gaskin Maneuver. The first obstetrical
maneuver to be named after a midwife, it embodies the essence
of midwifery by using simple body movements to facilitate a difficult birth.

Ina May was selected as a Visiting Fellow at Morse College of Yale University.

Ina May transformed her observation
of increasing maternal mortality in the U.S. into The Safe Motherhood
Quilt Project, a national effort to
honor those women who have died
of pregnancy-related causes during
the past twenty years and to draw
public attention to the unchanging
maternal death rate in this country.

"It's not just the
making of babies,
but the making of
mothers that
midwives see as the
miracle of birth. "

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We are everywhere.