Breastfeeding Quotes

• A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mothers Day, Baby, Food

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.388, Pollinger in Print

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• My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

  David Allen

  Funny, Opinion, Staring

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• The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman.

  Anwar Fazal

  Real, Caring, Joy

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• A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

  David Suzuki

  Mother, Baby, Nursing

  David Suzuki (1995). “Time to Change”, Stoddart Pub

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• When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.

  Christiane Northrup

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

  Ashley Montagu

  Mother, Baby, Emotional

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• Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.

  Marni Jackson

  Love You, Giving, Joy

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• Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Mother, Baby, Years

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• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Sweet, Thinking, Tree

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Healthy, Want, Easy

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• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  "Trees" l. 1 (1913)

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• It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mom, Mother, Fashion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.183, The Floating Press

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• 13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

  Frank Oski

  Pregnancy, Years, Care

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• There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

  Gunter Grass

  Men, Reason Why, Breasts

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• Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nursing, Doe, Looks

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

  Alanis Morissette

  Son, My Son, Finished

  "Celebrities Who Breastfeed: Alanis Morissette, Mayim Bialik, Beyonce And More". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• 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.'

  Kelly Rutherford

  Children, Son, Years

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• They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

  William Gouge

  Children, Bird, Trying

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• Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

  Plutarch

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Caring

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• Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Diets

  "Rebecca Romijn On Weight Loss And Breastfeeding". Extratv.com, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2009.

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• They do say breastfeeding is nature’s lipo.

  Ana Ortiz

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• Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.

  Mike Harding

  Baby, Father, Humorous

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• What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Angel, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.144, Yale University Press

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• In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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