Weaning Quotes

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

Weening is not measure.

When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

Something a lot of people don't know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It's cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it's like an addiction. That's your security blanket.