“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
“The fact that responding to a child’s needs by giving her the breast was normal for 99.9% of humans’ existence, and ensured… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In 54 of the 68 poorest countries where 97% of mother and child deaths occur there are glaring disparities between rich and poor.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“8. Governments should ensure that objective and consistent information is provided on infant and young child feeding.” — 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
“In the 1980s the Singapore government gave preferential school admission to the children of mothers with university degrees, while offering less-educated women… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Fresh non-human milk can make a useful contribution to the diet, but it is not essential and for many people it is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Practical Rules for the Management and Medical Treatment of Negro Slaves in the Sugar Colonies, stated: “Negroes are universally fond of suckling… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the struggle for power, or simply economic survival in the modern world, many women who have children find that they must… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The famous US political family, the Kennedys, were known for their numerous children, yet were never condemned for contributing to overpopulation.” — 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 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
“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
“When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could… — 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
“I drove my own children in a car without safety seats in the days before they were used. I cannot say, ‘well… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Immunisation may not work so well because ‘take up’ (ie antibody response) of vaccines is poorer in a child deprived of the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“That means not having a baby close to their body or in their bed and most definitely not giving a child free… — 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
“To be a good mother, a woman is supposed to devote herself entirely to her children (and often a dependent and childlike… — 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
