Top 56 Quotes About Not Breastfeeding
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Find Hilary Jacobson on Facebook at her Mother Food Page and her group Healing Breastfeeding Grief.
Hilary Jacobson
#4. I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.
Victoria Beckham
#5. Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.
Joe Orton
#6. 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
#7. 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.
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.
Vera Farmiga
#13. Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.
Melanie Brown
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. In case you haven't heard, let me tell you now, babies do not come out knowing how to breastfeed.
Cassi Clark
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,
Alanis Morissette
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Breastfeeding should not be taboo - and bottle feeding should not be judged - it's ALL fun for the whole family,
Jaime King
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.
Kathy Lette
#31. My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.
Evangeline Lilly
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#37. There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
Gunter Grass
#38. The physical relief of having fully drained boobs cannot be overstated.
Cassi Clark
#39. Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#40. 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
#41. Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
Iris Marion Young
#42. 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
#43. It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.
Marcia Cross
#44. They do say breastfeeding is nature's lipo.
Ana Ortiz
#45. Go hug a nursing mom -- but not too hard. Her boobs may hurt.
Cassi Clark
#46. My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
David Allen
#47. 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
#48. $13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.
Frank A. Oski
#49. Heaven is the feeling of hand warmers on sore nipples.
Cassi Clark
#50. 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
#52. 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
#54. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.
Kelis
#55. 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
#56. 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
