“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
“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.” — 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
“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
“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.” — 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
“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The AAP, an organisation supposedly concerned with child health, considered quality control an extravagance, whilst millions of dollars were, and are, spent… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 development of the infant food industry has depended on the repeated testing of unproven products on unsuspecting consumers without their informed… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the USA, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) accepts artificial-milk company money and promotion which defies the WHO Code.15” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“What the milk depots established was the link between artificial milk distribution and the health centres which persists to this day, the… — 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
“In societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21” — 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
“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
“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is now known that even in a rich country, a millionaire’s baby who is artificially fed is less healthy than 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
“Confidence, passed on with a bit of technique by other experienced breastfeeding mothers, is still the key to happy breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some western women stop breastfeeding early ‘for the marriage’s sake’, as though a physical bond with the baby prevents a happy sex… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 BFHI was designed to protect and promote exclusive breastfeeding, but its provisions always included the acceptance of medically indicated replacement feeding.… — 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… — 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
“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
