“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When health workers ask a woman, ‘Are you going to try and breastfeed?’7 they imply the likelihood of failure.” — 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
“Millions who have ‘tried’ to breastfeed gave up because general ignorance, hospital and health workers’ practices, all interwoven with cleverly targeted product… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“People often discuss why so many women do not breastfeed or give up quickly. I believe it is firm evidence of the… — 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
“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
“Women have the right to choose how they use their bodies and they cannot (and should not) be forced to breastfeed, but… — 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
“Artificial feeding is risky. This basic fact upsets people who feel insulted if they or their mothers did not breastfeed but most… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When the agents of public health lament the fact that poor black women breastfeed too little and conceive too much, they forget… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Faith alone does not make breastfeeding easy in a society ignorant of ordinary techniques, but where breastfeeding is still normal, the fact… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The USA has no federal legislation concerning maternity protection, let alone breastfeeding breaks, and despite some high profile companies supporting breastfeeding employees,… — 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
“The drugs commonly used for pain relief in labour can adversely affect the baby’s responses and make him reluctant to breastfeed.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
