“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Immunologist Lars Hanson views not being breastfed as a state of immunodeficiency.38” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Community-based promotion of exclusive breastfeeding can work wonders. Counsellors do not need to be health workers, they just need high quality training,… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women report that it is often other women who ask them to stop breastfeeding or leave a café or other public place.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“An exclusively breastfed child can die, just as an artificially fed child can survive, because of a range of risk factors, but… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“12. Manufacturers and distributors should comply with the Code (and all subsequent WHA Resolutions on infant feeding) independently of any government action… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Even in the USA, where artificial feeding is assumed to be safe, it has been calculated that 720 babies between the age… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is more prolactin in a woman’s bloodstream at night, indicating that over the millennia babies have taken more milk from their… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is almost unknown for a mammal in her normal environment to produce live young and be unable to produce the milk… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The infant feeding industry provides products, research grants, health information, gifts and sponsorship for conferences: all the activities believed to be essential… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Without special interventions such as a policy overhaul or staff training, breastfeeding help is not a priority. Staff might be reprimanded if… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“87% of mothers used artificial milk because they believed that the hospital staff had advised to do so. In reality they had… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The AAP, an organisation supposedly concerned with child health, considered quality control an extravagance, whilst millions of dollars were, and are, spent… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the past, rich women had frequently delegated childcare to a wet nurse. As doctors and companies began to promote and provide… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Anthropologist Kathy Dettwyler has considered a range of physiological and other signs and judges that between two and a half and seven… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“it is an oversimplification to pinpoint just one as a cause of breastfeeding decline. The common factors that have been repeated around… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The excuses for female exclusion per se are strikingly parallel to those for breastfeeding couples. Women are ‘shrill’; babies are noisy; women… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk is designed for rapid digestion and frequent feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding works better with bed sharing and breastfeeding is protective against SIDS.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Handing out a free sample is taking a stand against breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is far more likely to be problem-free and continue for longer if there has been early, uninterrupted skin contact.3” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“More than a third of deaths in children under five happen during the first month of life (about four million babies). Breastfeeding… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Studies from rich countries show that C-Section mothers are less likely to be breastfeeding at two weeks than those who delivered vaginally.25” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The BFHI was designed to protect and promote exclusive breastfeeding, but its provisions always included the acceptance of medically indicated replacement feeding. When this… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“Babies who do not sleep ‘through the night’ alone in a cot, as soon as possible after birth, are seen as a ‘problem’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“In some countries, pumping has become the default method of expression, and hand expression has become an afterthought. It would be safer if it… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a baby is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“Breastfeeding mothers, sleeping by their babies in three-sided cribs with the open side joined to the adult bed, respond quite differently from mothers whose… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“In the same way, breastfeeding is seen as a woman’s topic. Though women are often told whether or not they should do it, it… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“It seems likely that if you are told that your vagina is so ill-designed that it must be cut open to perform a normal… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time can greatly… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“Breastmilk substitutes can be useful, life-saving products, just as artificial insulin can save the lives of diabetics, but no honest doctor could advocate the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“An exclusively breastfed child can die, just as an artificially fed child can survive, because of a range of risk factors, but this does… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
