Quotable Quote from Gwen Stefani
December 18, 2006 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under advantages of breastfeeding, health of the mother, mothering, quotes and literature
Singer Gwen Stefani raves to USA Today about being a mother to her six-month-old son Kingston James McGregor Rossdale (with husband Gavin Rossdale) and talks about how she prays that she can have another baby. It must be all those positive mothering hormones from the breastfeeding:
“I’m still nursing,” she says, “and I think it gives you superhuman powers.”
It’s true that breastfeeding promotes emotional health in the mother, resulting in less postpartum anxiety and depression than found in formula-feeding mothers.
Author Barbara Behrmann explains:
In fact, prolactin and oxytocin, the two main hormones involved in breastfeeding, have earned the warm and fuzzy nicknames …read more
