Hi, all

Thought I'd add a few neat quotes to the growing list. Only one of the three
is very literary, but the other two are pretty powerful statements:

"Asked at a Blue Cross Blue Shield meeting on health care cost containment
in Minot, North Dakota:

What helps reduce the incidence of ear and respiratory infection, intestinal
disease, pneumonia, meningitis, Crohn's, colitis, diabetes, childhood
cancers, constipation, allergies, urinary tract infections, tooth decay and
obesity? It also increases intelligence and reduces the incidence of breast
cancer for the mothers.

No one knew the answer was breastfeeding."

While we are into neat quotes, how about this one from the late James P.
Grant, former Executive Director of UNICEF, in opening statement to the
WHO/UNICEF Policymakers Meeting on "Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A Global
Initiative," Florence, July 30, 1990:

"Yesterday, merely because mothers were not effectively empowered with the
knowledge, were not adequately motivated and not adequately supported to
breastfeed, 3- to 4,000 infants and young children died. Today 3- to 4,000
died; 30 days ago another 3- to 4,000 died."

[Never underestimate the job we do--and have yet to do!]

And one more quote:

"A pair of substantial mammary glands has the advantage over the two
hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain, in the art of compounding
a nutritious fluid for infants." -- Oliver Wendall Holmes

Have a lovely day!

Melissa Vickers, IBCLC
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