Top 79 Quotes About Breastfeeding
#1. When you're breastfeeding, you don't get juicy down there. The juice isn't loose.
Kourtney Kardashian
#2. Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.
Melanie Brown
#3. I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.
Patricia Heaton
#4. Once I finished breastfeeding, my mom's like, 'Don't take that bra off ever!' Mom, thank you. I wore a one-size-too-small bra for like, two years. It helps ... ! They don't fall, you teach them, you teach them to come back!
Paula Patton
#5. 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 Montagu
#6. I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.
Beyonce Knowles
#7. I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,
Alanis Morissette
#8. 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
#9. Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.
Monica Bellucci
#10. About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.
Denise Van Outen
#11. Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.
Vera Farmiga
#12. When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
Imelda May
#13. Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.
Stephen Gaskin
#14. If we wear our nursing covers backwards like capes, then everyone can see we're breastfeeding superheroes.
Cassi Clark
#15. What is important is any amount of breast milk that can be given to the baby is better than none, and breastfeeding is one of the many challenges along the way of being a great mother.
Simko Pharm. D., Lauren
#16. My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
Jade Jagger
#17. The American Academy of Pediatrics officially supports breastfeeding, but receives about half a million dollars from Ross, manufacturers of Similac infant formula.
Ben Goldacre
#18. A couple of websites I've come across credit the 'New York Times' for reporting that 12,000 women a year are arrested for breastfeeding in public. I could not confirm that number with a quick search, but even 1,200 would be too many - or even 12.
David Horsey
#19. Breastfeeding should not be taboo - and bottle feeding should not be judged - it's ALL fun for the whole family,
Jaime King
#20. Breastfeeding is the best diet. I want to eat healthy for her, so it's easy to say no to pizza.
Nancy O'Dell
#21. In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.
Germaine Greer
#22. An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.
Tichina Arnold
#23. Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother's foods, and studies consistently show that babies grow up to be more accepting of flavors they've sampled while in the womb and while breastfeeding.
Mary Roach
#24. It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#25. 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
#26. Bosoms," she announces, with a hand to her own, "are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity."
"Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?
Kathryn Stockett
#27. 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
#28. No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#29. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.
Bijou Hunter
#30. It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to do that. Yet, at the same time, it is often people with the least money and accompanying health inequalities that are most likely to benefit from breastfeeding
Jill Johnston
#31. My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.
Evangeline Lilly
#34. Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#35. I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, 'Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!'
David Alan Basche
#36. For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#37. It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.
Marcia Cross
#38. As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.
Kathy Lette
#39. My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
David Allen
#40. $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.
Frank A. Oski
#41. I think breastfeeding is part of what helped me lose my baby weight. I just dump it all into my chubby little son.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
#43. I know that, for me, I need to try to cover myself while breastfeeding so that no one snaps a picture. If this wasn't the case, I probably wouldn't mind as much because my son is my biggest concern. My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.
Kourtney Kardashian
#44. I've been breastfeeding for two years. I could light the gas ring with my nipples.
Jo Brand
#46. When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.
Vera Farmiga
#47. The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that 'nipple sucking' is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother's nipples as he would a bottle teat, it damn well hurts.
Gabrielle Palmer
#48. My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.
Gisele Bundchen
#49. Time-traveling again?" said Montana. It was artificial evening in the dome. She was breastfeeding their child. "Hmm?" said Billy. "You've been time-traveling again. I can always tell.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#50. Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!
Shakira
#51. Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.
Joe Orton
#52. Find Hilary Jacobson on Facebook at her Mother Food Page and her group Healing Breastfeeding Grief.
Hilary Jacobson
#53. I am big believer in breastfeeding. My oldest was breastfed for 9 months, my second for 6 months and I will try to nurse Kayla for 6 months. At the end of the day, it's a big sacrifice but you have healthier kids.
Deborah Cox
#54. They do say breastfeeding is nature's lipo.
Ana Ortiz
#55. 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
#56. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.
Kelis
#57. I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.
Victoria Beckham
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
Katherine Mansfield
#62. I think I would scream too if someone violently jammed a big ass breast in my mouth.
Cassi Clark
#63. If nursing were easy, there wouldn't be so many helpful products.
Cassi Clark
#64. But the overwhelming number of mothers who think they have too little milk have babies who are taking plenty of milk and are gaining weight well. These mothers have based their conclusions on misinformation or a misinterpretation of their babies' behavior.
Kathleen Huggins
#65. 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
#66. I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
John Hodgman
#67. 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
#69. In case you haven't heard, let me tell you now, babies do not come out knowing how to breastfeed.
Cassi Clark
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Heaven is the feeling of hand warmers on sore nipples.
Cassi Clark
#73. Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.
Margaret Visser
#74. Go hug a nursing mom -- but not too hard. Her boobs may hurt.
Cassi Clark
#75. Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
Iris Marion Young
#76. The physical relief of having fully drained boobs cannot be overstated.
Cassi Clark
#77. There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
Gunter Grass
#78. MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
Ambrose Bierce
#79. 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
