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Quotes About Infant

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.
~ Preston Cloud
Mother knows breast.
~ Anonymous
Breast milk is better than any udder milk!
~ Anonymous
Breastfeeding is nature's health plan.
~ Anonymous
Breastfeeding is best.
~ Anonymous
Breastmilk: the gift that keeps on giving.
~ Anonymous
Does breast milk come in chocolate?
~ Anonymous
Having compared the novel-reader with an infant and a primitive, one can go further and call him a psychopath; and this I shall shortly be doing.
~ Frank Kermode
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
~ Don Marquis
Hannah snuggled close, putting her fingers into Vanni's mouth while she suckled. Then the suction broke with her smile. And without quite letting go of the nipple, she said, "Mama," in a very small, almost relieved voice. And Vanni began to cry. *
~ Robyn Carr
Referring to his then-infant daughter, Tiffany: "Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla," Trump said. "She's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs." Trump then proceeded to motion to his chest and added, "We don't know whether she's got this part yet, but time will tell.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Megan and Marty's nine-month-old daughter with a mop of red curls.
~ Maggie Sefton
What do you think was the very first sound to become a word, a meaning?' ... And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
~ Amy Tan
And yes, I mean it. A man who sticks his cock in an infant`s mouth belongs to Himmler`s circle of hell.
~ Andrea Dworkin
I wonder if the personality you have as a baby stays with you. My mom tells me that I started making finger paintings with my strained carrots and mashed peas. "An artist right from the beginning," she says. I looked around the room at my friends, trying to picture each of them as a baby. Had their infant personalities followed them as they grew?
~ Ann M. Martin
EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,   Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven convey'd,   And bade it blossom there.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree.Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three,And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.
~ John Crowe Ransom
Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.
~ Brad Pitt
When holding is not adequate, when the infant/body is intruded upon or neglected—or worse, abused—stimulation is too intense for the infant/body self. Its only recourse is to stop being conscious and present, thereby developing a habit of "dissociating" as a defense. Overstimulation at this age also interrupts self-development. All energy must be directed toward keeping the world from intruding. The whole world is dangerous.
~ Elaine N. Aron
So unless this section of the chapter is distressing you, stop and take some time to think about your infant/body's first caretaker and the similarities between that early caretaking and how you care for yourself now.
~ Elaine N. Aron
A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships.
~ Anthony Storr
because an infant is born with only 25 percent of its adult brain volume, "its physiological systems are unable to function optimally without contact with the mother's body, which continues to regulate the baby much like it did during gestation." McKenna
~ Arianna Huffington
Carry your baby more. The more you hold him (even when he's not crying), the less likely he is to cry. In one study, researchers found that a two-hour increase in carrying time per day resulted in a 42 percent decrease in crying
~ Armin A. Brott
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
~ Robert Anton Wilson