“The current political climate is now one where the enduring marriage between doctors and baby food companies has spread into a veritable… — 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
“Danone is the second biggest (after Nestlé) artificial milk and baby food manufacturer in the world. This was not stated on the… — 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
“In less developed countries, the best form of promoting baby food formulas may well be the clinics which the company sponsors, at… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“During the early months, mothers all over the world hear the question: ‘Do you think he’s getting enough?’ And company promotion works… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
