--- title: Alyssa Milano Posts Breastfeeding Photo to Instagram description: The actress quit her ABC show in order to avoid uprooting her young children canonical: https://time.com/3543455/alyssa-milano-instagram-breastfeeding/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-28T14:33:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:12.954Z og:title: Alyssa Milano Posts Breastfeeding Photo to Instagram og:description: The actress quit her ABC show in order to avoid uprooting her young children og:url: https://time.com/3543455/alyssa-milano-instagram-breastfeeding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alyssa Milano Posts Breastfeeding Photo to Instagram twitter:description: The actress quit her ABC show in order to avoid uprooting her young children twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alyssa Milano Talks About the Joys of Breastfeeding  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 28, 2014 2:33 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 28, 2014 2:33 PM UTC New mom Alyssa Milano shared a picture of herself nursing her 7-week old daughter Elizabella on Instagram Monday. The picture was accompanied by a quote from Czech writer Milan Kundera that read: “Ah, the joys of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams.” The actress announced Sept. 30 that she would not be returning to her ABC show _Mistresses,_ because the show was shooting season 3 in Vancouver and she did not want to uproot her two young children. Here’s the announcement she posted on her blog: --- > “” --- In addition to baby Elizabella, Milano also has a son Milo, who is 3. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3543455/alyssa-milano-instagram-breastfeeding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3543455/alyssa-milano-instagram-breastfeeding/"},"headline":"Alyssa Milano Talks About the Joys of Breastfeeding","datePublished":"2014-10-28T14:33:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:12.954Z","description":"The actress quit her ABC show in order to avoid uprooting her young children","url":"https://time.com/3543455/alyssa-milano-instagram-breastfeeding/","keywords":["Living","motherhood","breastfeeding","actress"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3543455/alyssa-milano-instagram-breastfeeding/","name":"Alyssa Milano Talks About the Joys of Breastfeeding"}}]}] ```