“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A baby’s relationship with her mother is the primary experience of love. Does anyone fall in love to a schedule?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a mother’s body warms up if her baby is cool or cools down if he is too hot.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Health workers, relatives and society as a whole pressure mothers to ‘get back to normal’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“If she then has to cry to communicate her hunger, when she gets to her mother’s breast she might be too exhausted… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“During the early months, mothers all over the world hear the question: ‘Do you think he’s getting enough?’ And company promotion works… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A mother who wants to hold her baby most of the time is judged eccentric and often accused of ‘spoiling’ him. The… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In this precarious climate of employment, achieving basic health and safety standards in the workplace is hard enough; to ask for maternity… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“I felt my health giving way, and being in a weak condition, I became an easy prey to sexual intercourse, and thus… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“To be a good mother, a woman is supposed to devote herself entirely to her children (and often a dependent and childlike… — 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
