Fed is Best. I think many of us can agree with that, but if you are breastfeeding or wanting to, these quotes can help encourage you. Breastfeeding can be exhausting and lonely, but it can also be extremely rewarding – emotionally and physically. These breastfeeding quotes can help encourage, motivate and help you know you are not alone.
Be sure to read my Motivational Quotes For Moms as well!
Encouraging Breastfeeding Quotes
If you are struggling with breast feeding, these are encouraging struggle breastfeeding quotes. They can help you remember why you chose to breastfeed as well as letting you know you are not alone.
Be proud of breastfeeding, there are a ton of benefits for this choice.
“Bottles fill his stomach, but breastfeeding fills his soul.” -Diane Wiessinger, IBCLC
“It is the lucky child who still breastfeeds past two years old.” -Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop
“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
“Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.” -Frank A. Oski
“Mothers and babies form an inseparable biological and social unit; the health and nutrition of one group cannot be divorced from the health and nutrition of the other.” -World Health Organization
“A newborn 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.” -Dr. Grantly Dick-Read
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~Alanis Morissette
“If we wear our nursing covers backwards like capes, then everyone can see we’re breastfeeding superheroes.” ― Cassi Clark
“My body, my life, became the landscape of my son’s life. I am no longer merely a thing living in the world; I am a world.” ― Sarah Manguso
“Breastfeeding is a mother’s gift to herself, her baby, and the earth.” -Pamela K. Wiggins
“When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.” Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
“Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman’s breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.” -Robert A. Heinlein
“Breastfeeding reminds us of the universal truth of abundance; the more we give out, the more we are filled up, and that divine nourishment – the source from which we all draw is, like a mother’s breast, ever full and ever flowing.” -Sarah Buckley
“Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.” -Anne M Mulcahy
“While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby.” -Amy Spangler
“Breastfeeding is nature’s health plan.” -Author Unknown
“Breastfeeding reminds us of the universal truth of abundance; the more we give out, the more we are filled up, and that divine nourishment – the source from which we all draw is, like a mother’s breast, ever full and ever flowing.” – Sara Buckley
“So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.” – Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
“Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman’s breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.” -Robert A. Heinlein
“No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose.” -Leo Tolstoy
“The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly calm.” -Isak Dinesen
“Who fed me from her gentle breast And hushed me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.” -Anne Taylor
Funny Breastfeeding Quotes
“Don’t bite the boob that feeds you.” – Unknown
“Struggling with nursing in public? Turn to this breastfeeding quote: “My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin’ somethin’, don’t look if you don’t like it.” —Kourtney Kardashian
“Nursing gives you superhuman powers. How else could I be doing all this when I’m usually a sleepaholic?” —Gwen Stefani
“If anything else woke up every 45 minutes during the night demanding to see my wife’s breasts, you kill it.” —Ryan Reynolds
“I feel like a milk maid, but it is worth it.” —Miranda Kerr
“We all have nipples. I don’t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat.” —Selma Blair
“I make milk. What’s your superpower?” —Unknown
“As a breastfeeding mother, you’re basically just meals on heels.” —Kathy Lette
“Whoever said ‘there’s no use crying over spilled milk’ obviously never pumped six ounces and accidentally spilled it.” -Author Unknown
“…when people say that breastfeeding is ‘free,’ I want to hit them with a two-by-four. It’s only free if a woman’s time is worth nothing.” -Hanna Rosin
I hope these encouraging breastfeeding quotes helped you. Remember you are not alone. While breastfeeding can be lonely, exhausting, mentally draining an emotional, This the choice you made so you can do it! Let these quotes make you laugh, help encourage you and motivated you.
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