Birth Quote by Grantly Dick-Read

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the…

— Grantly Dick-Read

“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt away.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught…

— Ed McDonald

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

— Barbara Katz Rothman

“When the newborn sniffed strangely at her chest, she stared into its eyes and saw a world only two days old. Those two and…

— Anthony Marra

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they were not…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of…

— Anna Quindlen