“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
“Just a few hundred years ago, most human societies found breast exposure in everyday life unremarkable. What has happened to us?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“For the greater part of human existence we went bare-breasted and were accustomed to the great diversity of breast shape. Now instead… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The stress of rapid change, the absence of supportive female relatives and the attempt to adjust to an alien way of life… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The discouragement of sleeping with the baby at night, which had been the norm since the dawn of human life, spread throughout… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The Code’s purpose is transparent; like international football rules, it aims to make the game fair for everyone – except that infant… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The human species has only engaged in agriculture and pasturage for 12,000 to 15,000 years, a mere 1% of our time on… — 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
“Because people who live in richer regions are often unclear why artificial feeding is so dangerous in poorer regions it is important… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“If stress stopped lactation, the human race would never have evolved because stress has always been an integral part of human existence.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The integration of mothers and babies into public life was viewed with ridicule and alarm in many societies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some western women stop breastfeeding early ‘for the marriage’s sake’, as though a physical bond with the baby prevents a happy sex… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“nutrition in early infancy plays a part in age of menarche indicates that perhaps stopping breastfeeding, giving extra artificial feeds or introducing… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Confidence plays a huge part and if a woman has seen breastfeeding all her life and assumes it works, then she will… — 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
