Breastfeeding Quotes

“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

“Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her baby with her body! In my eyes, this is a certain form of beauty, of divinity! To know that my body can not only form and bring another human being into the world, but that I can actually feed babies with my own milk from my own breasts— that puts me in a state of awe each time I think about it. It is an honour to be a woman.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“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.”
― Kathryn Michaels, Crazy for Milk

“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.”
― Christine Northrup

“I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came.”
― Kathryn Michaels, Crazy for Milk

“I've been melted into something
too easy to spill. I make more
and more of myself in order

to make more and more of the baby.
He takes it, this making. And somehow
he's made more of me, too.”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“In my experience nursing is waiting. The mother becomes the background against which the baby lives, becomes time. I used to exist against the continuity of time. Then I became the baby's continuity, a background of ongoing time for him to live against. I was the warmth and milk that was always there for him, the agent of comfort that was always there for him.

My body, my life, became the landscape of my son's life. I am no longer merely a thing living in the world; I am a world.”
― Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay

“It seems as if every month brings another study showing that breast milk is what Ponce de León should have been searching for.”
― Nicholas Day, Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy

“Even within our culture, there are times when breasts stop being read as bouncy sex balls: when women are breastfeeding, there's pretty wide acceptance of the fact that shouting 'phwoar' is bad form.”
― Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

“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.”
― Ramesh Lohia

“The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers whose tenure is all too easily approved? Why not frolic naked in the sprinkler---under the full moon, perhaps? Why not turn one's family into a small nurturing country protected by a virtual moat?”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Breastfeeding reminds us of the universal truth of abundance; the more we give out, the more we are filled up, and that divine nourishment - the source from which we all draw - is, like a mother's breast, ever full and ever flowing.”
― Sarah Buckley

“Breast milk is so beneficial that a more or less well-nourished mother need not do any more than suckle her baby to ensure it is receiving a healthy diet. When it comes to the nutrients it contains, breast milk provides everything that dietary scientists believe children need in order to thrive - it is the best dietary supplement ever. It contains everything, knows everything, and can do everything necessary for a child's well-being. And, as if that weren't enough, it has the added advantage of passing on a bit of Mom's immune system to her offspring.”
― Giulia Enders, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

“If nursing were easy, there wouldn't be so many helpful products.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“If we wear our nursing covers backwards like capes, then everyone can see we're breastfeeding superheroes.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“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.”
― Jessica Bates, Birth & What Came After: poems on motherhood

“Breast milk is like the well that never stops giving.”
― Titilayo Medunoye

“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.”
― Alice Callahan, The Science of Mom: A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year

“I think I would scream too if someone violently jammed a big ass breast in my mouth.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“The physical relief of having fully drained boobs cannot be overstated.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“Heaven is the feeling of hand warmers on sore nipples.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“Go hug a nursing mom -- but not too hard. Her boobs may hurt.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“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.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“In case you haven't heard, let me tell you now, babies do not come out knowing how to breastfeed.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“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.”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“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!”
― Cassi Clark, Breastfeeding Is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do it Anyway

“Las tetas desnudas se han vuelto tan ubicuas como Dios, las ratas y las partículas de diésel. De hecho, hoy en día hay tanto tetamen a la vista en toda clase de entornos distintos que a veces no nos deja ver esa sociedad profundamente injusta que cosifica, degrada y trivializa la imagen de la mujer, reduciéndola a un par de tetas.
La actitud en torno a las tetas que se exhiben en público llega a ser muy desconcertante. Por ejemplo, están permitidas entre las páginas de un diario que se distribuye en el Parlamento británico, pero no lo están en el hotel Claridge’s de Londres cuando van adosadas a una mujer que amamanta.”
― Bridget Christie, A Book for Her

“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”
― Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Impact of Sleep Training and Cry it Out: Excerpt from The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep