“A baby’s relationship with her mother is the primary experience of love. Does anyone fall in love to a schedule?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a mother’s body warms up if her baby is cool or cools down if he is too hot.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“4. No contact between marketing personnel and mothers (including health workers paid by a company to advise or teach).” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A millionaire’s baby who is not breastfed is less healthy than an exclusively breastfed baby whose mother is in the poorest social… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.” — 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
“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
“Mothers who share a bed or use a three-sided cot attached to the bed are far more responsive to their babies than… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is more prolactin in a woman’s bloodstream at night, indicating that over the millennia babies have taken more milk from their… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Parents who believe they must leave their baby to cry and sleep alone from an early age, will tuck numerous cuddly toy… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Almost in their sleep, mothers respond, stroke and suckle their babies throughout the night. All the mothers unconsciously sleep in a special… — 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
“Breastfeeding mothers, sleeping by their babies in three-sided cribs with the open side joined to the adult bed, respond quite differently from… — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Copy Share Image
“The assumption that fertility control should be manipulated by authorities without respect for the wishes and dignity of individuals still exists. We… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“A mother’s breast is like an efficient pharmacist: it produces general disease preventing substances for everyday use and then makes up specific… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised… — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Copy Share Image
“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to be stroked and touched and the benefits of skin contact do not just affect mothers and babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Health workers, relatives and society as a whole pressure mothers to ‘get back to normal’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“As it became usual for the noble baby to be wet nursed, it became more difficult for a mother to defy custom.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Our class owes its uniqueness to mothering and lactation; indeed that is why it is called ‘mammalia’, after the mammary glands.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39” — 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
“During the early months, mothers all over the world hear the question: ‘Do you think he’s getting enough?’ And company promotion works… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“87% of mothers used artificial milk because they believed that the hospital staff had advised to do so. In reality they had… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A mother who wants to hold her baby most of the time is judged eccentric and often accused of ‘spoiling’ him. The… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Researchers who separated primate mothers and infants experimentally, observed that the loss of contact was devastating and the ill effects could last… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Solitary babies are in danger and crying is evolution’s method of alerting a mother that her baby needs her urgently. If ignored… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In most traditional societies babies and mothers have a period of time to establish breastfeeding. Techniques have been learned unconsciously at an… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Kangaroo mother care is a basic right of the newborn and should be an integral part of the management of low birth… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to… — 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
