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Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family QUOTES

Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family QUOTES

1 " we’re recommending that all breastfeeding mothers prepare for bedsharing whether or not they ever intend to do it, since research finds that most breastfeeding mothers do sleep with their babies at some point and preparing for bedsharing is safer than accidentally falling asleep together. "

― , Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

2 " Bottom line: your baby’s needs are more important than someone else’s opinion. Keep your cool, stay polite, and don’t feel any need to apologize. They’re the ones with a problem, not you. "

― , Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

3 " If there could be a little blue light on the rooftop of every home in your town where a mother is awake when you are, the town would be lit with little blue lights, coming on and off, but always lots of them. It might even help to picture it when you’re feeling awake and alone in the middle of the night. "

― , Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

4 " It’s okay to let go of the image of the perfect mother. It was never real anyway. Perfect is never necessary; good enough is always good enough. "

― , Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

5 " (How can a baby sleep 18 hours a day and still keep you up 20 hours a day? It’s a time warp thing that no one can explain.) "

― , Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

6 " In a different culture or a different time in history, nobody would think twice about you breastfeeding and having your baby in your bed, because that’s what most mothers would have done. "

― , Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family