“Immunologist Lars Hanson views not being breastfed as a state of immunodeficiency.38” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Handing out a free sample is taking a stand against breastfeeding.” — 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
“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 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
“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 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
“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 industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.” — 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
“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
“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
“I know that stating these facts can be painful or even enraging to some women who have not breastfed their children, but… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk is designed for rapid digestion and frequent feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
