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39 Breastfeeding Quotes to Cheer You On — Milkology®

Breastfeeding Encouragement Quotes

“Bottles fill his stomach, but breastfeeding fills his soul.”

-Diane Wiessinger, IBCLC

“It is the lucky child who still breastfeeds past two years old.”

-Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop

“My birth instructor said this… ‘The breast is like a muscle you haven’t used yet. ‘Remember taking up a new sport?’ she asked… ‘Remember how much the new set of muscles you used surprised you by aching so much?’ Well, she said, that’s what it’s like to use your breasts, for the very first time, for the purpose they have been awaiting all your life.”

-Julia Glass

“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. ”

-Abhijit Naskar

“A pair of substantial mammary glands has the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor’s brain, in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for infants.”

-Oliver Wendall Holmes

“Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.”

-Frank A. Oski

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“Mothers and babies form an inseparable biological and social unit; the health and nutrition of one group cannot be divorced from the health and nutrition of the other.”

-World Health Organization

“A newborn 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.”

-Dr. Grantly Dick-Read

“Breastfeeding is a mother’s gift to herself, her baby, and the earth.”

-Pamela K. Wiggins

“Mother’s milk is, I think, a symbol of compassion. Without mother’s milk we cannot survive, so our first act as a baby together with our mother is sucking milk from our mother, with a feeling of great closeness. At that time, we may not know how to express what love is, what compassion is, but there is a strong feeling of closeness. From the mother’s side also, if there is no strong feeling of closeness toward the baby, her milk may not flow readily. So, mother’s milk is, I think, a symbol of compassion and human affection.”

-The Dalai Lama

“Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fish-like motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams. ”

Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.”

Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“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 an instinctual and natural act, but it is also an art that is learned day by day. The reality is that almost all women can breastfeed, have enough milk for their babies and learn how to overcome problems both large and small. It is almost always simply a matter of practical knowledge and not a question of good luck.

-La Leche League

“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

“Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.”

-Anne M Mulcahy

“While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby.”

-Amy Spangler

“Breastfeeding is a natural ‘safety net’ against the worst effects of poverty. If the child survives the first month of life (the most dangerous period of childhood) then for the next four months or so, exclusive breastfeeding goes a long way toward canceling out the health difference between being born into poverty and being born into affluence…. It is almost as if breastfeeding takes the infant out of poverty for those first few months in order to give the child a fairer start in life and compensate for the injustice of the world into which it was born.”

-James P. Grant

“If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence.”

-Gabrielle Palmer

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

-Honoré de Balzac

“Breastfeeding is nature's health plan.”

-Author Unknown

“The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.”

-Ashley Montague

“No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose. ”

-Leo Tolstoy

“When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm.”

-Milan Kundera

“The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm.”

-Isak Dinesen

“Who fed me from her gentle breast

And hushed me in her arms to rest,

And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?

My Mother.”

-Anne Taylor

“If a new vaccine became available that could prevent one million or more child deaths a year, and that was moreover cheap, safe, administered orally, and required no cold chain, it would become an immediate public health imperative. Breastfeeding can do all of this and more, but it requires its own ‘warm chain’ of support – that is, skilled care for mothers to build their confidence and show them what to do, and protection from harmful practices. If this warm chain has been lost from the culture or is faulty, then it must be made good by health services.”

-Lancet, A Warm Chain For Breastfeeding

“Mother’s milk, developed through evolution with thousands of ingredients to build the human brain, body and immune system, is incomparable with a man-made product of a couple dozen ingredients that are non-human and in wrong proportions.”

Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D.

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

-David Suzuki

“Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don't decide how much and how deeply to love you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.”

-Marni Jackson

”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 natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman.”

-Anwar Fazal

“A little child born yesterday a thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.”

-Homer

“I’m an advocate of ‘indiscreet’ breastfeeding – the more that people see babies at the breast, the more normal it will be.”

-Dr. Jack Newman

“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. ”

-Abhijit Naskar

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

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding

“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

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

-Frank Oski

“A mother’s worth is measured in love, and not ounces. ”

-Stacey Stewart, CLE, Founder of Milkology®

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81 Inspiring Breastfeeding Quotes To Cherish The Bond With Your Baby

From my experience, breastfeeding has been one of the most special and rewarding things I have ever done. There is almost nothing more amazing than being able to nurture, nourish and comfort your baby.

On the other hand, breastfeeding is also one of the most challenging things I’ve done as a mom. Between the learning curve and sore breasts and nipples, breastfeeding can become overwhelming and discouraging.

If you are struggling and needing some encouragement, empowerment or need a good laugh I hope you enjoy these 81 breastfeeding quotes!

Inspirational

There is nothing more special than the bond between a mother and her baby. Breastfeeding has helped me create a unique bond with my children and will always be a time that I look back on and cherish.

If you need some inspiration, I hope that you can find it in these beautiful breastfeeding quotes.

1. “I am all my little one needs.”

2. “Breastmilk is love turned into food. It takes someone special to share that love.” -Human Milk for Human Babies

3. “Breastfeeding is not always easy, but it is always worth it. ”

4. “My breastmilk is just right for my baby.”

5. “My body can provide all the nourishment my baby needs.”

6. “You are a rockstar whether you nurse for 3 days or 3 years.”

7. “Breastfeeding is a mother’s gift to herself, her baby and the earth.”
-Pamela Wiggins

8. “Everything has changed, and yet, I am more me than I have ever been.” -Iain Thomas

9. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.”

10. “A baby nursing at a mother’s breast is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.” -David Suzuki

11. “Mama, be as gentle with yourself as you are your baby.”

12. “Breastfeeding is empowering. It’s an accomplishment that takes dedication that I didn’t realize I possessed.”

13. 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 all draw is, like a mother’s breast, ever full and ever flowing.

-Sarah Buckley

14. “Your breastmilk contains 3 million germ-killing cells per teaspoon. Your breastmilk is that awesome!”

15. “If you have milk, you have milk and if they’re hungry, they’re hungry.”
-Salama Hayek

16. “The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman.”

-Anwar Fazal

17. “Mother’s milk is soul food for babies. The babies of the world need a lot more soul food.” -Ina May Gaskin

18. “Breastfeeding is a gift that lasts a lifetime.”

19. “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.”

– Grantly Dick-Read

20. “The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin

21. “I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.” -Alanis Morissette

22. “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

23. “Breastfeeding is an instinctual and natural act, but it is also an art that is learned day by day. The reality is that almost all women can breastfeed, have enough milk for their babies and learn how to overcome problems both large and small. It is almost always simply a matter of practical knowledge and not a question of good luck.” -La Leche League

24. “Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.” -Marni Jackson

25. “What an honor it is to be a tiny somebody’s everything.”

26. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” -Linda Wooten

27. “Successful mothers are not the ones that never struggled, they are the ones that never gave up despite the struggle.”
-Sharon Jaynes

28. “Some days she has no idea how she’ll do it. But, every day it still gets done.”

29. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.”-Edwin Chapin

30. “I am exactly the mom my baby needs.”

Funny Breastfeeding Quotes

If you need a good laugh, these funny breastfeeding quotes are for you! Sometimes, you have to find humor in the moment!

31. “Niplash (noun): When a nursing baby decides to suddenly jerk their head to look around the room while still latched on to your breast.”

32. “My husband and I share the load. I breastfeed because he can’t, and he sleeps because I can’t.”

33. “I feel like a milk maid, but it is worth it.”

34. “Booby Trapped (verb): When your baby has fallen asleep at the breast and you’re too scared to move them for fear they’ll wake.”

35. “Breastfeeding: Because you can eat an extra 500 extra calories worth of Oreos every day.”

36. “When in doubt, whip it out.”

37. “That moment when your baby cries and your boobs are all go go gadget milk.”

38. “Nursing gives you superhuman powers.”
-Gwen Stephani

39. “Never cry over spilled milk, UNLESS it’s breast milk.”

40. “You know you’re a breastfeeding mom when you decide what to wear based on how easily accessible your breasts will be.”

41. “Eat, Sleep, Nurse, Repeat”

42. “I was really looking forward to sleeping on my stomach after giving birth.. but now I have milk boobs.”

43. “Breastfeeding: finally all those hamburgers are going to someone else’s thighs.”

44. “I make milk.. What’s your superpower?”

45. “As a breastfeeding mother, you are basically meals on heels.” -Kathy Lette

46. “Keep calm and nurse on!”

47. “Comfort, love and nutrition served on demand.”

48. “Before I go back to work I am going to add breastfeeding to my resume.”

49. “Don’t bite the boob that feeds you!”

50. “If we wear our nursing covers backwards like capes, then everyone can see we’re breastfeeding superheroes.” -Cassi Clark

51. “Breastmilk has never been recalled.”

52. “Breastmilk is better than any udder milk!”

53. “Breastfeeding is amazing: you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.” –
Melanie Brown

54. “Breastmilk.. love in every drop.”

55. “Mother knows breast.”

56. “May your coffee, pelvic floor, intuition and milk supply be strong.

”

Challenging Breastfeeding Quotes

Breastfeeding is challenging, and these quotes will challenge you to keep going! I will say that breastfeeding gets easier after a few weeks and with every baby you have it is like riding a bike.

57. “I won’t give up, it gets easier.”

58. “When I need help, there are people I can turn to for advice and support.”

59. “My baby and I are learning together.”

60. “She believed she could so she did.”

61. “It’s okay if my baby nurses frequently.”

62. “There is nothing better than time spent nourishing my baby.”

63. “I won’t tell you it’s going to be easy, but it will be worth it.”

64. “My body knows how to produce milk.”

65. “I make the MILK in this family!”

66. “It gets better, it gets easier and you’ll be stronger for it.”

67. “I trust my body to make the perfect amount of milk to nourish my baby.”

68. “Breastfeeding is a deeply personal journey. Some days haven’t been easy, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

” – Rachel from Hold These Moments

69. “I allow myself to be patient while I build up my milk supply.”

70. “There is no substitute for mother’s milk.” -Martin H Fischer

71. “Mother’s milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature’s perfect food.” -Robert Mendelsohn

72. “Human milk is not just a food, it also compliments the immaturity of organs in infants.” -Peter Hartmann

73. “I know it’s hard mama. I know it can be hard to get up every day and have little people rely om you. I know it’s hard to feel like sometimes your world is so small. I want to remind you, you are the world. You are the world that those little ones revolve around. You are their nurture, their home, and their comfort. You are everything to them, and I hope even on your hard days you know how special you are. Especially to your little people.”

74. “Breastfeeding is natural. It isn’t always natural like breathing (which is automatic), but rather like walking (which needs to be learned)” -La Leche League

Normalize Breastfeeding Quotes

Breastfeeding in public can be scary, whether you choose to nurse covered or uncovered. I remember nursing in a restaurant for the very first time with my first. I was so scared that someone would judge me or speak negatively about me. I could have definitely used these quotes before my first public outing.

75. “My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin’ something; don’t look if you don’t like it.” – Kourtney Kardashian

76. “Breastfeeding is the biological norm.”

77. “I’m an advocate of ‘indiscreet’ breastfeeding – the more that people see babies at the breast, the more normal it will be.” – Dr. Jack Newman

78. “Breastfeeding is not easy, but the bond it creates is unbreakable.”

79. “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.” -Abhijit Naskar

80. “Mothers and babies form an inseparable biological and social unit; the health and nutrition of one group cannot be divorced from the health and nutrition of the other.

” -World Health Organization

81. “Never be afraid to nurse in public. If people don’t see it, it will never become normalized.”

Mama, you are doing a great job. Breastfeeding is not an easy task, but you are doing it! Whether you need some inspiration, laugh, challenge, or empowerment I hope that these quotes served you in some way.

Let me know in the comments below what your favorite moments of nursing are. Remember, keep calm and nurse on!

Breastfeeding quotes - 5 answers

I was recently presented with a book of aphorisms "Thank you, Mom, for being you." To my great pleasure, I found among the many quotes about motherhood a few dedicated to breastfeeding and a couple of reproductions of wonderful paintings. I was pleased to realize that at all times there were people who understand the importance of breastfeeding and see the beauty in it. I hasten to share with you)

"The Milky Way of our life begins at the mother's breast" (L. S. Sukhorukov) "Everything beautiful in a person comes from the rays of the sun and from Mother's milk" (M. Gorky)
"Breastfeeding is a deeply intuitive process, the same as carrying a baby and giving birth. And only the human intellect, imagining itself the crown of creation, could reduce this process to bare scientific schemes, seeing in it a problem worthy of its application, and giving rise to the most of the really serious problems that deprive the mother and child of the delightful atmosphere of mutual penetration, in which truly human relations are nurtured and mature "(M. Trunov)
" If the mother has too little health to be a breadwinner, then the father will have too much to do to be mentor" (J.J. Rousseau)
"What property can be more sacred than mother's milk for a baby. There is no doubt about his legal rights to this property. This is the only capital of a child - milk, it appears with him and for him. Here are all his treasures. The power of life, growth - everything in this food. " (M. Montessori)
"Parents can demand the return of the mother of the sacred rights granted to her by nature: to breastfeed the child, to be with him and treat him as the heart tells. And let every woman who has realized this right and regained the dignity of the Mother will shake off his slavish obedience to bureaucratic instructions and stand up for the health and happiness of his children" (B. and E. Nikitin)
"The image of a baby feeding from the mother's breast is not just a beautiful symbol of motherhood. We are all babies at the breast of our common mother - Nature. And we will remain human only as long as we manage to keep the feeling for her that the baby feeds on the mother who is feeding him. This feeling The mother's breast teaches best. It is a symbol of our relationship and the key to understanding the world." (M. Trunov)
"Most of the paintings depict the moment either preceding breastfeeding or immediately following it. In the past, I think this was taken for granted. We have increasingly begun to forget about this most important and biologically and psychological support of motherhood, which is one of its greatest mysteries.What appears in the soul of a woman, what appears in the soul of a child thanks to these endless, in sum, hours spent alone? pacifier, even if it is guaranteed to be environmentally friendly?" (A. Belkin)

An excerpt from Sergei Alekseev's story "Khlebozory":

"Like all military children, I suckled my breast until almost three years old and therefore remembered it well and remembered the taste of milk. But it was not just a taste sensation, such as, for example , the taste of bread or the taste of cow's milk, I felt that a tight stream of heat and light was entering me, and I was warming myself and filled with this warmth and light, and some other exultant state, which cannot at all be called a rude word - satiety. I remembered well my attitude at that time to the mother's breast: it seemed that it was a part of myself, that I could not live without this source, just as I could not live without a head or a body . .. "

Quotes from the book “200 Questions About Breastfeeding” by Irina Ryukhova📚 — the best aphorisms, sayings and catchphrases — MyBook.

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A for small men. a different growth pattern: they usually gain a lot in the first months (even up to 2 kg), less - between the third and sixth months (usually about 500-800 g) and very little, from 100 to 400 g per month, in the second six months of life. nine0003

July 23, 2020

On demand” means the demand not only of the baby, but also of the mother: if the breast is already unpleasantly heavy, it is better to wake the child, let him eat, and then sleep further.

March 22, 2021

Feeding the baby in case the mother has a fever is not only possible, but also necessary! If the mother gets sick with something infectious, then together with the milk the child will receive antibodies to the disease, which by the time the temperature rises in the mother could already affect the baby. From the point of view of mother's health, this is also very important, because nothing frees the breast so easily and well as a child copes with it! If a sick mother does not put her baby to her breast, then chest pain, the threat of milk stagnation and a general deterioration in her condition will be added to all her problems, not because of the disease, but simply because of the lack of feeding. At the same time, nothing happens to the mother’s milk when the temperature rises: it cannot “spoil” in the breast, it just becomes hotter than usual, but this will not bring any harm to the baby. nine0003

March 22, 2021

You can also try to drink valerian - for mother, not for child; valerian in a very small amount penetrates into milk, and the child becomes a little calmer. For this purpose, valerian is used in a standard dosage no more than 4 times a day.

February 22, 2021

If you plan to supplement with breast milk within 3-4 hours after pumping, it is best not to refrigerate it, but simply leave it at room temperature. During this time, nothing will happen to him, and there is no need to warm up; nine0003

February 7, 2021

Sometimes, on the contrary, the baby does not like the breast, from which the milk comes out with great pressure, so that he chokes. Then it is better to use a position for feeding in which the baby is on top, comfortably sitting with his tummy on his mother's stomach (this is called "relaxed feeding"). Gravity reduces the activity of the tide, and the position on top gives the baby more control over the flow of milk.

February 1, 2021

Summing up: the breast itself does not need to be specially prepared for feeding; in case of hypersensitivity, the first choice is lanolin monocream. The best way to prepare is to know exactly what awaits you.

January 20, 2021

Additional fluid appears in the child's diet along with the introduction of complementary foods, after six months. And then many children up to 8-9 months old do not drink water themselves, but indulge in blowing bubbles. nine0003

January 18, 2021

There is no need to limit yourself to drinking: your body regulates its needs well, so, on the contrary, ignoring its signals can create problems.