“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In spite of continual railing against those unworthy mothers who did not suckle their babies, there was little interest or research into… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“These depots were the forerunners of health clinics all over the world where a cheap or free product has been used to… — 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
“When mothers are allowed and encouraged to be intuitive and responsive to their babies’ cues, the pair adapt to each other rapidly… — 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
“Health workers, relatives and society as a whole pressure mothers to ‘get back to normal’.” — 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
“I felt my health giving way, and being in a weak condition, I became an easy prey to sexual intercourse, and thus… — 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
“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39” — 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
“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
“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
