“The production of milk works on the supply and demand principle. The more often the baby suckles, the more milk is made.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is almost unknown for a mammal in her normal environment to produce live young and be unable to produce the milk… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most humans who have walked this earth never drank a drop of nonhuman milk.” — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Copy Share Image
“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.” — 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
“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
“Artificial milk is an entirely different substance from human milk, containing no living cells and not adapting to each baby’s individual and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a high protein diet is not good for a young infant. The main task of making cows’ milk into an ‘infant formula’… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“Breastmilk substitutes can be useful, life-saving products, just as artificial insulin can save the lives of diabetics, but no honest doctor could advocate the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
“An exclusively breastfed child can die, just as an artificially fed child can survive, because of a range of risk factors, but this does… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share
