QUOTES
Lactation Quotes, Sayings and Thoughts
Quick Quips!
Breastmilk...the gold standard of infant nutrition.
Human Milk for human babies!
Affordable healthcare begins with breastfeeding.
Breastmilk...it's more than just a meal!
"It is astounding that a thousand generations of knowledge and experience can be wiped out by a single generation of ignorance." - --S.M. Richards
From Lactnet:
Why is it we allow the two oldest most mature memebrs of a household to sleep together, but expect the youngest most immature member to sleep alone in a dark room?
A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professors' brains in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
And the end of all exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot
When asked what is the source of your essential optimism, Margaret Mead responded: "I believe that it was crucial for my life-long optimism that I was a very welcome and greatly loved, breastfed baby." (Some personal views, pg 276)
Babies are such a nice way to start people --Don Herold
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal
Human
milk is not just a food; it also complements the immaturity of organs in
infants.
- Peter Hartmann, Australian biochemist
"I don't do great things; I do small things with great love."
- Mother Theresa
The
Newborn baby has only 3 demands- They are warmth in the arms of its mother,
food from her breast, and security in the knowledge of her presence.
Breastfeeding satisfies all three.
-Dr Grantly Dick-Read: a Pioneer in childbirth education
Artificial feeding is like artificial insemination- it accomplishes the same purpose, but loses something in the delivery.
Re: Maureen Mitchell, IBCLC
To
believe that simply having children makes one a parent is as absurd as
believing that having an instrument makes one a musician.
-Anonymous
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"
--Theodore Hesburgh
Longer Lactation Quotes
Subject: Winston Churchill (humor)
A
friend of mine pointed out an article she thought I might be interested in
reading in a periodical we get here called, "The Motivational
Manager." One of the articles caught my eye.It was titled Watch what you
say... and eat.
"During a visit to America, Winston Churchill was invited to a buffet
luncheon at which cold fried chicken was served.Returning for a second helping,
he asked politely: "May I have some breast?"
"Mr. Churchill," replied the hostess, "in this country we ask
for white meat or dark meat." Churchill apologized profusely.
The following morning, the lady received a magnificent orchid from her guest of
honor. The accompanying card read: "I would be most obliged if you would
pin this on your white meat."
From:
Jack Newman
Subject: Vitamin D
The following biologic information comes from recent National Geographics. For
"God", feel free to substitute "evolution",
"nature", or "chaos theory" (whatever that is), if you
wish.
"The phalarope, a wading shorebird, has a unique way of dining on
creatures too deep for it to reach. It draws them up by spinning in the water
at breakneck speak. Phalaropes detect prey, thrust, seize, transport and
swallow in less than half a second, at a rate of 180 pecks per minute".
But God forgot the vitamin D
"Light signals are essential to butterfly mating... Males and females have photreceptors on their sex organs. When light to the male's receptors is completely blocked, the pair's genitalia are exactly aligned and they can mate. If the light leaks, it's no go."
But God forgot the vitamin D
"Tiny blind burrowers, Namib Desert golden moles have nifty survival tricks. After hunting termites on the surface, they dig a foot or so into the African sand and remain torpid there for 19 hours or more as their bodies cool, reducing their energy needs".
But God forgot the vitamin D
"Bola spiders excel at capturing moths. Females spin a silken thread with a sticky droplet at the end. When a moth appears, the spider swings the thread until it sticks. To bring moths close, the spider uses deception. She produces chemicals similar to pheromones used by females of several moth species to attract mates. When male moths show up, they find only a fatal attraction."
But God forgot the vitamin D
If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again
If
I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch , and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less, and know more to care.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing seriously, and seriously play.
I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.
I'd teach less about the love of power, And more about the power of love.
---Diane Loomans
One of our Michigan peer counselors composed the following. Enjoy. Karen in Brighton, MI
You might be a Breastfeeding Peer Counselor if:
You
use the word good and suck in the same sentence.
You have used every body part that will fit comfortably into a breastpump for
demonstration purposes, and have the "love bites" to prove it.
Dinner time is not longer signalled by the smoke alarm but by your beeper.
You can use the words flap, wings, shield and latch and never once mention an
airplane.
"Mom" means a woman who might be younger than you and none of her
babies are your siblings.
You now belond to the "inverted" group, an occupational hazard of 2
years worth of demonstrating the technique to stop leaking.
You have a head of cabbage in your freezer year-round.
"Stool" is not something that has four legs.
"Letdown" is not a disappointment.
"Suck" is a good thing.
Boats no longer come in but milk does.
You experience "letdown" and it has been over 5 years since you
nursed a baby.
Your index finger is permanently puckered from the stresses of suck training.
You know what suck training is.
The sight of formula and all tha paraphernalia that goes with it raises your
blood pressure but strengthens your cause.
Each and every member of your family could give a 20 minute speech on the
benefits of breastfeeding, including the 7 year old.
Montgomery no longer brings visions of a county western singer.
You now know that "areola" is not a city in Mongolia, meconium is not
a contagious disease, lactation is not the name of the latest perfume and
colostrum is not a musical instrument.
You now know that the other thing besides starting with a "n" that
noses and nipples have in common is that there are no two alike, thus
explaining the survival of Playboy.
In your humble opinion, if all babies were breastfed, then there would be peace
on earth.
by Mary Schommer
Biblical
Lactation Related Quotes
(compiled by Jack Newman)
And
she (Sarah) said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have
given children suck?
Genesis XXI, 7
But
Hannah did not go up; for she said unto her husband, So soon as the child shall
be weaned, then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and abide
there for ever. And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth good in
thy eyes; tarry until though has weaned him; only may the Lord fulfill his
word. So the woman remained behind, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
Samuel I, I, :22-23
From
the God of thy father, who will help thee; and from the Almighty, who will
bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, with blessings of the breasts, and
of the womb;
Genesis. XLIX, 25-26
Like
a shepherd will he feed his flock: with his arm will he gather the lambs, and
in his bosom will he carry them, will he lead gently those that suckle their
young.
Isaiah XL, 11-12
Yet
Zion said, The Eternal hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. Can a
woman forget her sucking child, not to have mercy on the son of her body? yea,
should these even forget, yet would I not forget thee.
Isaiah LI, 14-16
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be delighted over her, all ye that love her; be highly glad with her, all ye that mourn for her. In order that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolations; in order that ye may sip and find pleasure from the abundance of her glory.
For
thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will extend to her peace like a river, and
like a rapid stream the glory of nations, that ye may suck; upon the arm shall
ye be borne, and upon knees shall ye be dandled.
Isaiah LXVI, 10-13 Instead that thou wast forsaken and hated, without one to
pass through (thee), will I render thee an excellency of everlasting, a joy of
all generations. And though shalt suck the milk of nations, and the breast of
kings shalt thou suck:
Isaiah LX, 15-16
Now
when she had weaned Lo-ruchamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
Hosea I, 8
Give
them, O Lord, what thou wilt give! give them a miscarrying womb and dried-up
breasts.
Hosea IX, 14-15
Yea,
thou art he that took me from the womb; thou hast been my trust when I hung on
my mother's breasts.
Psalm XXII, 10-11
Surely
I have pacified and stilled my soul, like the suckling on its mother's breast;
like a suckling is in me my soul.
Psalm CXXXI, 2-3
Oh
that some one would make thee as my brother that hath sucked my mother's
breasts!
The Song of Solomon VIII, 1
Shall
women, then, eat their own fruit, the babes they have tenderly nursed?
Lamentations II, 20
Even
wild beasts offer the breast, they give suck to their young ones;the daughter
of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue
of the suckling cleaveth to its palate by reason of thirst: babes ask for
bread, there is not one to break it for them.
Lamentations IV, 3
And
Naomi took the child, and laid it in her lap, and she became a nurse unto it.
Ruth IV, 16
And it happened, as He spoke these
things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him,
Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!
Luke XI, 27
General Quotes
What you permit, you promote. -Unknown
Be like a postage stamp- stick to one thing until you get there! -Carity
No one cares how much you know until they know you care. -Unknown
Procrastination is the thief of time. -Edward Young, 1684-1785
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. Robert Frost
Accept that some days you are the pidgeon , and some days you're the statue. Roger C. Anderson in the Rotarian
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -Henry David Thoreau
Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble
Courage in your own.
From Ye Weary Wayfarer, by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordan, pub 1867.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882