“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
“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
“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
“Even in the USA, where artificial feeding is assumed to be safe, it has been calculated that 720 babies between the age… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“12. Manufacturers and distributors should comply with the Code (and all subsequent WHA Resolutions on infant feeding) independently of any government action… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“An exclusively breastfed child can die, just as an artificially fed child can survive, because of a range of risk factors, but… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women report that it is often other women who ask them to stop breastfeeding or leave a café or other public place.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Community-based promotion of exclusive breastfeeding can work wonders. Counsellors do not need to be health workers, they just need high quality training,… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In many societies any non-human milk donation was interpreted as a health message to replace breastfeeding, an idea often endorsed by the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In industrialised societies, the advertising of baby milks and bottles and the doubts of health workers and families provide the modern curses… — 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 not easy to establish exclusive breastfeeding in a world where mixed feeding is normal, but it is possible as researchers… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“The availability and promotion of commercial foods had a demoralising influence on both individual and social confidence in breastfeeding.” — 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is far more likely to be problem-free and continue for longer if there has been early, uninterrupted skin contact.3” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is almost unknown for a mammal in her normal environment to produce live young and be unable to produce the milk… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is more prolactin in a woman’s bloodstream at night, indicating that over the millennia babies have taken more milk from their… — 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
“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
“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
“The infant feeding industry provides products, research grants, health information, gifts and sponsorship for conferences: all the activities believed to be essential… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“No medical student was trained in the subject, although as a qualified doctor, he (rarely she) miraculously acquired the authority to tell… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were… — 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
“Anthropologist Kathy Dettwyler has considered a range of physiological and other signs and judges that between two and a half and seven… — 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
