Thursday 8 August 2013

Breathing

 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


While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby.  ~Amy Spangler


Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.  ~Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, 1981


My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.  ~David Allen


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


A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


There are three reasons for breast-feeding:  the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.  ~Irena Chalmers


A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.  ~David Suzuki


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


Breast milk is better than any udder milk!  ~Author Unknown


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.  ~Honore de Balzac


[Bottle feeding] also made a fetish out of cleanliness, and maybe all the washing and scrubbing has further reduced the pleasure we take in our body and in life.  ~Author Unknown


They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.  ~William Gouge, 1622


Breastfeeding is nature's health plan.  ~Author Unknown


Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.  ~Robert S. Mendelsohn


Joy all creatures drink
At nature's bosoms...
~Friedrich von Schiller, "Ode to Joy," 1785, translated from German


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


...a little child, born yesterday,
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed...
~"Hymn to Mercury" (one of the Homeric Hymns), translated from Greek by Percy Bysshe Shelley  (Thanks, Sarah)


Breastfeeding is a mother's gift to herself, her baby and the earth.  ~Pamela K. Wiggins


Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.  ~Plutarch


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


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


People need to understand that when they're deciding between breastmilk and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi.... They're choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the cheapest oils available.  ~Chele Marmet


Breastfeeding is a gift that lasts a lifetime.  ~Author Unknown


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


Ah, the joy of suckling!  She lovingly watched the fishlike 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


A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart.  Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.  ~Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries


O, thou beautiful damsel, may the four oceans
Of the earth contribute the secretion of milk
In thy breasts for the purpose for improving
The bodily strength of the child
O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child
Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like
The gods made immortal with drinks of nectar
~Sushruta, translated


The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm.  ~Isak Dinesen


A day came - of almost terrified delight and wonder - when the poor widowed girl pressed a child upon her breast.... a little boy, as beautiful as a cherub.  What a miracle it was to hear its first cry!  How she laughed and wept over it - how love, and hope, and prayer woke again in her bosom as the baby nestled there.... It was her life which the baby drank in from her bosom.  ~William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter XXXV


An honour! were not I thine only nurse,
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat
~William Shakespeare


And hence at our maturer years, when any object of vision is presented to us, which by its waving or spiral lines bears any similitude to the form of the female bosom, whether it is found in a landscape with soft gradations of rising and descending surface, or in the forms of some antique vases, or in other works of the pencil or chisel, we feel a general glow of delight, which seems to influence all our senses.  ~Erasmus Darwin


Mother knows breast.  ~Author Unknown


Breastmilk:  the gift that keeps on giving.  ~Author Unknown


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


Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.  ~Author Unknown, "Nursing Mother Principle"


When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?  In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever.  And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.  ~Anna Quindlen


Does breast milk come in chocolate?  ~Author Unknown


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


Skin does not equal sin.  ~Author Unknown


What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!  ~Henry David Thoreau


Breastfeeding is best.  ~Author Unknown


I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.  ~Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000


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


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


There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.  ~Gunter Grass


The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Boobs are for breastfeeding.  ~Author Unknown


I am beautiful as I am.  I am the shape that was gifted.  My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager.  My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's.  For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.  ~Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective


No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.  ~Sigmund Freud


I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast...
~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"


A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort are not necessarily associated with food.  ~Author Unknown


Mammals:  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


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

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