Best 59 quotes in «breastfeeding quotes» category

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    Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

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    Go hug a nursing mom -- but not too hard. Her boobs may hurt.

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    If we wear our nursing covers backwards like capes, then everyone can see we're breastfeeding superheroes.

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    If nursing were easy, there wouldn't be so many helpful products.

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    I think I would scream too if someone violently jammed a big ass breast in my mouth.

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    Heaven is the feeling of hand warmers on sore nipples.

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    I can absolutely assure you that birth is nothing like holding an ice cube in your hand for a minute and breathing through the "pain.

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    In case you haven't heard, let me tell you now, babies do not come out knowing how to breastfeed.

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    It is true that breasts can induce sexual tension in men, but truer than that is the fact, that breasts are the primary and healthiest source of nutrition for the infant, so, if men can't use their higher mental faculty of self-restraint at the sight of breastfeeding at public places, then it's not the women who need to change their breastfeeding place, it's the men who need to work on their character.

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    I try to feel my own edges in the low light. I send my mind to the outer edges of me — where do I end? I send myself to my innermost edges, and I see that in both directions  I am infinite.

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    It seems as if every month brings another study showing that breast milk is what Ponce de León should have been searching for.

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    I wanted to be ready. I had thought I was ready. I really believed I was ready. That is, until the milk came.

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    The physical relief of having fully drained boobs cannot be overstated.

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    Successful breastfeeding take courage, resilience, patience, and support and it always has. If your partner or support group hasn't piled on the accolades for your heroism, then let them know you will expect oohs and has when you make it through the first two to three months (no matter how you got there) and your baby is happy and healthy -- because you are awesome!

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    Mother's milk is soul food for babies. The babies of the world need a lot more soul food.

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    The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that ‘nipple sucking’ is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother’s nipples as he would a bottle teat, it damn well hurts.

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    The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.

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    Though breastfeeding is supposed to the most natural thing ever, it seems like a rich-people sport for all the stuff we buy to help.

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    The whole human world is born from the womb of mothers, and if we can't make the motherly act of breastfeeding free from stigma in such a world, then it's an insult to our very existence as a species.

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    They convinced our mothers that if a food item came in a bottle -- or a can or a box or a cellophane bag -- then it was somehow better for you than when it came to you free of charge via Mother Nature....An entire generation of us were introduced in our very first week to the concept that phony was better than real, that something manufactured was better than something that was right there in the room. (Later in life, this explained the popularity of the fast food breakfast burrito, neocons, Kardashians, and why we think reading this book on a tiny screen with only three minutes of battery life left is enjoyable.

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

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    We do science because we want to understand the truth. It is a constant, ongoing pursuit to understand our own biology so that we can make smart choices at an individual and policy level. If the science of breastfeeding is used first and foremost as a tool for breastfeeding promotion, we compromise public trust in science. Biased information about breastfeeding also sets up infant feeding as a debate, which sometimes escalates to mommy war status, and it doesn't need to be either of these.

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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.

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    We should understand the mother and child as a mutually responsive dyad. They are a symbiotic unit that make each other healthier and happier in mutual responsiveness. This expands to other caregivers too. -Darcia Narvaez

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    An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.

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    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.

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    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

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    As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.

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    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.

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    Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

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

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    I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!

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    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.

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    Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.

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    Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.

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    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?

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    How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

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    I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.

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    I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.

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    It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

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    I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.

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    I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

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    My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.

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    Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

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    My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

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

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    "My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch.

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    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?

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    When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

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    When you're breastfeeding, you don't get juicy down there. The juice isn't loose.