Breastfeeding Quotes · Page 3

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

— Stephen Gaskin

“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Vera Farmiga

“A millionaire’s baby who is not breastfed is less healthy than an exclusively breastfed baby whose mother is in the poorest social…

— Gabrielle Palmer

You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it's supposed to be so organic that you feel like you're doing something incorrect.

— Jennifer Konner

“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

I was watching a lot of 'Game of Thrones' while I was breastfeeding a newborn.

— Lennon Parham

“In the past, rich women had frequently delegated childcare to a wet nurse. As doctors and companies began to promote and provide…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Anthropologist Kathy Dettwyler has considered a range of physiological and other signs and judges that between two and a half and seven…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Those who market artificial baby milk, bottles, teats and the essential cleaning materials benefit financially from keeping breastfeeding in check.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The role of the baby in all aspects of breastfeeding has been underestimated, and one scientist described this part aptly as “the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an…

— Greg Giraldo

“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The same country that has such weak regulations (and they are among the best in the world) of the artificial milk market…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were…

— Gabrielle Palmer

I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much…

— Pink

Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the…

— Anna Quindlen

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth…

— Ashley Montagu

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a…

— Anonymous

When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest…

— Susan Rice

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

— Nancy O'Dell

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

— Tichina Arnold

“Confidence plays a huge part and if a woman has seen breastfeeding all her life and assumes it works, then she will…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A girl would have learned how to breastfeed by seeing it done a thousand and one times, just as she learned how…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Mike Harding

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the…

— Joyce Kilmer

I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples.

— Jo Brand

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Immunologist Lars Hanson views not being breastfed as a state of immunodeficiency.38”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When health workers ask a woman, ‘Are you going to try and breastfeed?’7 they imply the likelihood of failure.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Kelis

“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Melanie Brown

I had my twins via surrogacy, so I didn't have that experience of breastfeeding.

— Michelle Buteau

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

— David Allen

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

— Frank Oski

“Bosoms, are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity.”

— Kathryn Stockett