Michele Bachmann Quotes

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother's body temperature will rise the minute that the baby touches her chest because she needs to get warmer.

I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing thing for babies, but it's also really good for the mother because it regulates your body again after pregnancy.

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

I think breastfeeding is part of what helped me lose my baby weight. I just dump it all into my chubby little son.

Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?... If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "it's in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.

I breastfed both my kids for two years so, you know it was very tiring emotionally and physically.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

But when you have a baby inside you, you're like 'Whoa!' Anything can happen here, I've got to give this baby all the nutrients it needs and really take care of myself, so this is definitely the healthiest I've ever been in my life.

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.

Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.

When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.

The balance of our population, our human stock is threatened. A recent article in Poverty, published by the Child Poverty Action Group, showed that a high and rising proportion of children are being born to mothers least fitted to bring children into the world and to bring them up.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

The best drop of milk for the child--is the milk from its mother's breast.

… men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this [childbirth] very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children, why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.