Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed. — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.” — 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
13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. — Frank Oski Copy Share Image
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard — David Allen Copy Share Image
“Bosoms, are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity.” — Kathryn Stockett 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In the past, rich women had frequently delegated childcare to a wet nurse. As doctors and companies began to promote and provide… — 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
“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
“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
“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
A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Mothers might say they'd go to the doctor. In poor countries, moms are usually responsible for their kids' health. But breastfeeding and… — Melinda Gates 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing… — Penelope Cruz 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
Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of… — Susan Molinari 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
I am big believer in breastfeeding. My oldest was breastfed for 9 months, my second for 6 months and I will try… — Deborah Cox 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
“Eating organic food has become a status symbol, having an unmedicated birth is a status symbol, and breastfeeding exclusively is a status… — Amy Tuteur Copy Share Image
Some people here think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child,… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
I'm so sick and tired of women who are pro-breastfeeding - which is awesome - putting down other women who either don't… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
“I try to feel my own edges in the low light. I send my mind to the outer edges of me —… — Jessica Bates 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
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
