Breastfeeding, Extended Nursing, Spacing Babies ~ Quotes
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“If God Almighty came to you and said, “I myself have designed a special food that will strengthen your baby’s body and develop his brain, which will comfort him and cheer his heart, and lay the foundation for his lifetime health and well-being. I have given this food into your keeping; I have placed it in your body; it is my loving provision for your child” – who would reply, “No thanks, no divine gifts, I’d rather give him a can of Similac”?”
Juli Loesch Wiley
“. . .the Lord does not in vain prepare nutriment for children in their mothers’ bosoms, before they are born. But those on whom he confers the honor of mothers, he, in this way, constitutes nurses; and they who deem it a hardship to nourish their own offspring, break, as far as they are able, the sacred bond of nature. If disease, or anything of that kind, is the hindrance, they have a just excuse; but for mothers voluntarily, and for their own pleasure, to avoid the trouble of nursing, and thus to make themselves only half-mothers, is a shameful corruption.”
John Calvin, commenting on Genesis 21:7
“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
“Mother’s milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature’s perfect food.”
Robert S. Mendelsohn
“Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.”
Plutarch
“While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby.”
Amy Spangler
“But let mothers deign to nurse their children, morals will reform themselves, nature’s sentiments will be awakened in every heart, the state will be repeopled. Let women once again become mothers, men will soon become fathers and husbands again.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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