It’s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, I’ll just do it as long as it feels right for my son.'
13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.
Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presided over the domain of food and feeding for thousands of years, were historically and routinely barred from presiding over it in a spiritual context. And when the priest held out the host and said, "This is my body, given for you," not once did I recognize that it is women in the act of breastfeeding who most truly embody those words and who are also most excluded from ritually saying them.
I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.
Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.
They do say breastfeeding is nature’s lipo.
Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.
There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.
As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.
When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.
I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.
Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?
No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding.
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?
It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to do that. Yet, at the same time, it is often people with the least money and accompanying health inequalities that are most likely to benefit from breastfeeding
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
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