Nurse Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“As it became usual for the noble baby to be wet nursed, it became more difficult for a mother to defy custom.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”

— Joseph Conrad

Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are 'just doing our jobs.'

— Christine Belle

“As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.”

— Joseph Gies

“We were already mothers then, some by heart and some by womb. We rocked grandbabies left in our care and taught the neighborhood kids…

— Brit Bennett

“Caroline, beside herself, dragged me down to her, her breast was against mine, and by a circular movement seemed to caress it. The pretty…

— Anonymous

“For several hundred years before the eighteenth century, Roman Catholic doctrine advised wet nursing “to provide for the frailty of the husband by paying…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“you want to keep the blood and the milk hidden as if the womb and breast never fed you”

— Rupi Kaur

“The word on the street was that I had two options when it came to caring for my future baby: I could either eat,…

— Rachel Held Evans

Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy every day, while we are just doing our jobs.

— Christine Belle

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

— George Thorogood