Parenting Quotes by Gabrielle Palmer

“As it became usual for the noble baby to be wet nursed, it became more difficult for a mother to defy custom.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“4. No contact between marketing personnel and mothers (including health workers paid by a company to advise or teach).”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“a mother’s body warms up if her baby is cool or cools down if he is too hot.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Health workers, relatives and society as a whole pressure mothers to ‘get back to normal’.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“Everyone needs to be stroked and touched and the benefits of skin contact do not just affect mothers and babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Kangaroo mother care is a basic right of the newborn and should be an integral part of the management of low birth…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In most traditional societies babies and mothers have a period of time to establish breastfeeding. Techniques have been learned unconsciously at an…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“In the struggle for power, or simply economic survival in the modern world, many women who have children find that they must…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“Researchers who separated primate mothers and infants experimentally, observed that the loss of contact was devastating and the ill effects could last…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely,…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“The assumption that fertility control should be manipulated by authorities without respect for the wishes and dignity of individuals still exists. We…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A baby’s relationship with her mother is the primary experience of love. Does anyone fall in love to a schedule?”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The knowledge of dairy cows has exceeded that of human lactation and has had a misleading influence on the understanding of human…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“The integration of mothers and babies into public life was viewed with ridicule and alarm in many societies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Our class owes its uniqueness to mothering and lactation; indeed that is why it is called ‘mammalia’, after the mammary glands.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“87% of mothers used artificial milk because they believed that the hospital staff had advised to do so. In reality they had…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“A mother who wants to hold her baby most of the time is judged eccentric and often accused of ‘spoiling’ him. The…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Almost in their sleep, mothers respond, stroke and suckle their babies throughout the night. All the mothers unconsciously sleep in a special…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Parents who believe they must leave their baby to cry and sleep alone from an early age, will tuck numerous cuddly toy…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“The stress of rapid change, the absence of supportive female relatives and the attempt to adjust to an alien way of life…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“When mothers are allowed and encouraged to be intuitive and responsive to their babies’ cues, the pair adapt to each other rapidly…

— Gabrielle Palmer