“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 commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Breastfeeding in industrialised society is closely bound up with perceptions of sexuality. The very reason it is frowned upon in public is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Early suckling helps expel any fragments of placenta and stems post-natal bleeding; it also prevents engorgement, mastitis and abscesses which could lead… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to establish exclusive breastfeeding in a world where mixed feeding is normal, but it is possible as researchers… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Despite scientific evidence that (except in rare medical cases) anything other than breastmilk interferes with the establishment of breastfeeding and may do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Between 1983 and 1991, the AAP received contributions from infant formula companies which amounted to US$8.3 million, in addition to the income… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A girl would have learned how to breastfeed by seeing it done a thousand and one times, just as she learned how… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The Code does not restrict the sale and availability of breastmilk substitutes. It bans all advertising, but endorses the provision of scientific… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding mothers, sleeping by their babies in three-sided cribs with the open side joined to the adult bed, respond quite differently from… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The baby food companies can maintain good profit margins as long as women hear what a marvellous thing breastfeeding is without getting… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Confidence plays a huge part and if a woman has seen breastfeeding all her life and assumes it works, then she will… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The number of unwanted pregnancies (and miscarriages) will have increased all over the world where medical advice and commercial misinformation have interfered… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A millionaire’s baby who is not breastfed is less healthy than an exclusively breastfed baby whose mother is in the poorest social… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Babies can translate the nutrient needs of their tiny bodies into their suckling behaviours, but medical rules based on mistaken theories have… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“in 2007, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons presented research showing that breastfeeding, even for a long time, does not make breasts… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“One sad fact of the 20th century was that the more contact mothers had with health workers, the less they breastfed.5” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“What the milk depots established was the link between artificial milk distribution and the health centres which persists to this day, the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk changes over the hours, weeks and months, according to a baby’s needs; and it changes during a breastfeed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The development of the infant food industry has depended on the repeated testing of unproven products on unsuspecting consumers without their informed… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the USA, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) accepts artificial-milk company money and promotion which defies the WHO Code.15” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“No woman need feel guilty for ‘failing’ to breastfeed, though she has the right to feel angry or sad for being denied… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is now known that even in a rich country, a millionaire’s baby who is artificially fed is less healthy than the… — 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
