Hi Karen,
As someone else pointed out, the quote you refer to is from the late Dr.
Gregory White (husband of one of the LLL founders). Because it is one of
my favorite quotes ever regarding mothering and one I use at every
breastfeeding class I teach, I'll quote it here in full for those who
aren't familiar with it:
"A lot of people think they are entitled to a night's sleep. Nobody's
entitled to a full night's sleep and very few mothers get one. Many people
do at one time or another during their lives, and I'm all for it. But no
one's entitled to it, whether she's a new mother or not, if someone needs
her. If a lazy, self-indulgent old man like me can get out of bed in the
middle of the night to help people he hardly knows, certainly a mother can
do this for her own child." (_Womanly Art of Breastfeeding_, 7th rev.,
pg.102-3)
I swear, it strikes me so to the core of my being that I get tears in my
eyes *every* time I read it!
~Dianne Oliver, LLLL, IBCLC
Simi Valley, CA
>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:12:50 -0400
>From: Karen Pogge <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: sleeping through the night
>
>
>Someone else will probably remember who said this - it was either the
>husband of one of the LLL Founders, or one of the early medical advisors to
>LLL. He was/is a physician. Anyway, the basic quote was something along
>the lines of, "If a grouchy old man like me can get up in the middle of the
>night and go to the hospital to care for a sick patient, surely a parent
>can get up in the middle of the night to care for her own child."
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