Hi Jacqui,
I assembled my favorite bf quotes on the last page of Breastfeeding at a
Glance: Facts, Figures and Trivia about Lactation. Here they are....
I leave it to historians and other knowledgeable persons to describe how it
came to pass that, as we enter the third millennium, so many babies and
mothers, in so many countries around the world, are deprived of the miracle that is
breastmilk. To maintain societies where artificial feeding is the norm, is not
only counter-productive and self-defeating, but is a truly appalling vision of
nutritional mediocrity.
James Akré
Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health
Organization
Parenthood brings supreme meaning and joy to our lives. When a mother suckles
her child, she gives expression to that joy. When a mother offers her breast,
she offers her time, her warmth, herself. The baby takes in food; and while
it appears that something is being removed from one and given to the other, it
is actually love that is being exchanged.
Dia L. Michels
Breastfeeding at a Glance: Facts, Figures and Trivia about Lactation
These days, you open the paper and read about kids shooting up schools. These
are disconnected kids. But children who breastfeed a long time are, above
all, connected. Our society could use a whole lot more connected kids.
William Sears, MD
Author of The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know about Your Baby
from Birth to Age Two
Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You
don't decide how much or how deeply to love-you respond to the beloved, and
give with joy exactly as much as they want.
Marni Jackson
The Mother Zone: Love, Sex, and Laundry in the Modern Family
A baby mammal can't exist without its mother. In the world of mammals, a baby
exists only as part of a mother/baby pair. The journey to adulthood begins
with lactation. Breastfeeding is at the core of the process whereby helpless
infants mature into self-sufficient adults. The practice of breastfeeding links
us to our evolutionary family.
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph. D.
Author of The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood: Coping with mothering
stress, depression and burnout
Breastfeeding is a biological drive. That drive is very much controlled by
attitudes and institutional practices of a society. We can deny that biology,
and we can abstain from breastfeeding. We can intellectualize it and deny it.
But physically our bodies were designed to do it. Breastfeeding is about helping
a new mother attach, accept and receive a new little person into her life. It
is nature's way of protecting our young and, when we circumvent it or
reinvent it, we do it at a cost to our society in terms of the emotional, physical
and spiritual health of all people.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC
Edgewater, FL
Parental lifestyles may change, and undoubtedly have over the course of the
centuries and the millenniums, but babies do not. The baby born in the
twenty-first century has the same needs and will respond in the same way as the infant
who arrived before time was tallied. The human baby has an inner drive to be
fully human and in that context, a baby's wants are a baby's needs.
Mary Ann Cahill
Founder, La Leche League International
A parodoxical finding is now becoming consistent and general in the
literature on breastfeeding; it appears that women who rely most on the medical
establishment for infant feeding information are the least likely to breastfeed
successfully.
Beverly Winikoff
International Programs, Population Council
Breastfeeding is a beautiful, peaceful and powerful experience. It is giving
your baby the perfect food in the perfect way. You don't have to be perfect to
do something that is perfect. How many chances in life do you have to do
that?
Dia L. Michels
Breastfeeding at a Glance: Facts, Figures and Trivia about Lactation
From: Breastfeeding at a Glance: Facts, Figures and Trivia about Lactation,
Dia L. Michels, Cynthia Good Mojab, MS and Naomi Bromberg Bar-Yam, Ph.D.,
Platypus Media, LLC, Washington, DC, 2001, ISBN: 1-930775-05-9. URL: <A HREF="www.PlatypusMedia.com">
www.PlatypusMedia.com</A>.
Hope this helps!
- Dia
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