Sweet Sleep Quotes

“When a mother and baby don’t spend the night together, stress hormones rise, vital signs change, sleep patterns are disrupted, neural pathways go off course, and trust can be tarnished.”
― La Leche League International, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“All Mothers Aren’t the Same and All Babies Aren’t the Same We mothers all have different personalities, body shapes, interests and needs, and daily rhythms. And then maybe we change jobs, or partners, or homes. Or we add children or other responsibilities. Every baby is unique too. Some need a lot of holding. Some need a lot of breastfeeding. Some need a lot of sleep. A few babies seem to have read all the parenting books; most of them threw the books over their tiny shoulder on day one. All different, all changing. But eventually, the baby who never sleeps becomes the teenager who can sleep through an earthquake, with many stages in between.”
― La Leche League International, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“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.”
― La Leche League International, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“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.”
― La Leche League International, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“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.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“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.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“(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.)”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

“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.”
― Diane Wiessinger, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family