“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
“The scandal of death through childbirth is not an argument for routine medicalised, interventionist birth, though it is often used as an… — 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
“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
“One target of the fifth UN Millennium Development Goal (UNMDG) to improve maternal health, is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely,… — 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
“Giving a baby anything other than breastmilk before six months increases the risk of infection, allergy and even death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“women found physical hardship more endurable than anxiety, their ‘nerves’, and the consciousness that their never-ending reproductive state could lead to death.” — 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
