“US black women are three times more likely to die than white women from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, and this… — 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
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Observation of animals revealed the fact that infants were rejected if the mother could not nuzzle them within a certain time.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Feeding cereals and solid foods early is not just a waste of time, money and effort, it does harm.” — 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
“When babies are fed at prescribed intervals and their time at the breast curtailed, then the wonderful dance that the bodies of… — 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
“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
“Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Treatment of Negro Slaves in the Sugar Colonies, stated: “Negroes are universally fond of suckling… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In most traditional societies babies and mothers have a period of time to establish breastfeeding. Techniques have been learned unconsciously at an… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“No amount of advice will prevent the women from carrying on this deadly habit.” This was written in 1917, but the attitude… — 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
