“5. No gifts or personal samples to health workers or their families.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A tin of infant formula is often the most expensive food item a family has ever purchased.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A common North American and European attitude is to criticise a low-income family but accept profligate fertility among the rich.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The fact that some men (and their families) behave decently does not negate the unequal power structure.” — 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
“The idea that more dead babies will reduce world population is nonsense and in fact has the opposite effect. It has been… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In industrialised societies, the advertising of baby milks and bottles and the doubts of health workers and families provide the modern curses… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“137 million women who want to space or limit their pregnancies use no contraception, usually because they have no access to family… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The old country midwives helped with the washing and household tasks and could always be paid with produce or later favours, but… — 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
“it is an oversimplification to pinpoint just one as a cause of breastfeeding decline. The common factors that have been repeated around… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the 21st century 200 million women who want to limit their childbearing have no access to contraception or family planning services.18” — 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
