“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.” — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“Commercially prepared formula is recommended for infants during the first 6 to 12 months.” — Gabrielle Palmer 12 Months 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 Doctor Copy Share Image
“The fact that some men (and their families) behave decently does not negate the unequal power structure.” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?” — Gabrielle Palmer Assumed Copy Share Image
“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“sleeping ‘through the night’, even for adults, is a particularly modern concept linked with industrialisation.” — Gabrielle Palmer Industrialisation Copy Share Image
“Most humans who have walked this earth never drank a drop of nonhuman milk.” — Gabrielle Palmer Nature Copy Share Image
“Artificial feeding requires medical services to be nearby. In much of the world, access to medical care is scarce and services overstretched.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The process of the journey from the breast to adult eating habits can be made gentle or painful according to cultural approaches.” — Gabrielle Palmer Eating habits Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, women were presented with an illusion of liberation through the artificial feeding of babies, only to find their… — Gabrielle Palmer 20th century Copy Share Image
“The term ‘infant formula’ was a stroke of marketing genius, it made a recipe based on ordinary old cows’ milk seem like… — Gabrielle Palmer Milk Copy Share Image
“We have organised our own lives to fit in with machines, much against our own biorhythms (the short night and siesta schedule… — Gabrielle Palmer Birth Copy Share Image
“If she then has to cry to communicate her hunger, when she gets to her mother’s breast she might be too exhausted… — Gabrielle Palmer Mother Copy Share Image
“individual sexual drive varies greatly, that penetrative intercourse is not the only means of sexual satisfaction and that celibacy never killed anyone.” — Gabrielle Palmer Celibacy Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember that it is still only a minority of the world’s population that can be artificially fed from… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
“Interventions such as weighing can be postponed until the baby has nuzzled and suckled without interruption; neither mother nor baby should be… — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting 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 Children 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.… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Diet before and during pregnancy does make a difference to whether a baby is born healthy, but lactation is astonishingly robust and… — Gabrielle Palmer Anorexia Nervosa Copy Share Image
“There is no government in the world that fully respects nomads or other ‘Stone Age’ people. At best they are ignored; more… — Gabrielle Palmer Nomads 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 Children 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk is designed for rapid digestion and frequent feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Feeding cereals and solid foods early is not just a waste of time, money and effort, it does harm.” — Gabrielle Palmer Money Copy Share Image
“A tin of infant formula is often the most expensive food item a family has ever purchased.” — Gabrielle Palmer Expensive Copy Share Image
“5. No gifts or personal samples to health workers or their families.” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“a mother’s body warms up if her baby is cool or cools down if he is too hot.” — Gabrielle Palmer Mother Copy Share Image
“1. No advertising of breastmilk substitutes, feeding bottles or teats.” — Gabrielle Palmer Bottles Copy Share Image
“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“880,000 babies could be saved simply by not removing them from their mothers, and by supporting early suckling.” — Gabrielle Palmer 000 Babies Copy Share Image
“In Uganda there is one nurse per 5,000 people and one doctor per 24,700.14” — Gabrielle Palmer Nurse Copy Share Image
“Nearly half of all human beings live on less than US$2 a day.” — Gabrielle Palmer Half Copy Share Image
“Graduate couples were offered free holidays in romantic places in an attempt to induce them to breed,” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Humans are herd animals and we tend to do what everyone else does.” — Gabrielle Palmer Animal Copy Share Image
“Breasts are sexually stimulating, but so are legs, lips and the nape of the neck, to name a few focuses of visual… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
