Breastfeeding Quote: More Than Just Milk
June 4, 2009 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under advantages of breastfeeding, quotes and literature
This rather shocking quote affirms everything I have always felt about breastfeeding. You can’t replace breastfeeding with formula, or even breast milk with formula; they simply aren’t equivalent. That doesn’t make formula “bad” nor should it make formula-feeding mothers feel guilty. It acknowledges that breastfeeding is part of an intimate relationship between mother and child.
To reduce breastfeeding to milk is like reducing sex to semen.
– Rachel Myr, Lactnet list facilitator, named “Midwife of the Year 2008″ in Norway, as quoted in Lactnet
Breastfeeding Quote of the Day: Newborn Needs
May 3, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under advantages of breastfeeding, breastfeeding, quotes and literature
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, author of Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth and Natural Childbirth, among others
