“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
“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Premature breastmilk is different in composition to full term milk, and adapted to the baby’s need.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The women who do abruptly deny the breast believe that it is in their children’s best interest. It can lead to malnutrition… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In spite of continual railing against those unworthy mothers who did not suckle their babies, there was little interest or research into… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The unfamiliarity of the hospital ward, the busyness of the staff and the presence of strangers, can all inhibit a woman, as… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A Chicago study of 20,000 infants, all from poor families, all under the supervision of local welfare clinics, revealed that at nine… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk substitutes can be useful, life-saving products, just as artificial insulin can save the lives of diabetics, but no honest doctor could… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When the baby food industry protests that they are not wholly responsible for the decline in breastfeeding they are right; the aid… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that ‘nipple sucking’ is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother’s… — 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
“Artificial milk, baby foods and bottles do. They kill babies and small children by transmitting infections because it is very difficult to… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Artificial feeding requires medical services to be nearby. In much of the world, access to medical care is scarce and services overstretched.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is a requirement of the BFHI accreditation that all breastfeeding women be taught hand expression.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of dairy cows has exceeded that of human lactation and has had a misleading influence on the understanding of human… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Giving a baby anything other than breastmilk before six months increases the risk of infection, allergy and even death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It has become socially acceptable for a baby to suck anything, be it bottle, dummy, soft toy, blanket or the nearest adult… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“These depots were the forerunners of health clinics all over the world where a cheap or free product has been used to… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The hospital’s endorsement of early artificial feeding conveyed the idea that it was a safe feeding method.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Using breasts for feeding a baby may be emotionally confusing if society and personal experience have emphasised their sexual and aesthetic functions.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“To this day ‘insufficient milk’ is the commonest reason that women give for abandoning breastfeeding. This is more common in societies where… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Health officials from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Israel have all issued warnings against the use of soya-based artificial milks… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The same country that has such weak regulations (and they are among the best in the world) of the artificial milk market… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“9. All information on artificial feeding, including labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding and warn of the costs and hazards associated… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The availability and promotion of commercial foods had a demoralising influence on both individual and social confidence in breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Those who market artificial baby milk, bottles, teats and the essential cleaning materials benefit financially from keeping breastfeeding in check.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The role of the baby in all aspects of breastfeeding has been underestimated, and one scientist described this part aptly as “the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The German word for breastfeeding, ‘Stillen’, means to quieten and soothe as well as to give the breast.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“More than a third of deaths in children under five happen during the first month of life (about four million babies). Breastfeeding… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.” — 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
