Gabrielle Palmer

“5. No gifts or personal samples to health workers or their families.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Immunologist Lars Hanson views not being breastfed as a state of immunodeficiency.38”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“2. No free samples or free or low cost supplies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The bonding effects of suckling can be stronger than giving birth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A baby’s crying is biologically designed to motivate us to stop it.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Between 1846 and 1876 about one in 200 women died within a month of giving birth.2”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Nowadays any well-run maternity unit would not wash babies at birth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“An average person in a poor country uses just 10 litres of water a day; in a rich country the figure is…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Confidence plays a huge part and if a woman has seen breastfeeding all her life and assumes it works, then she will…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most innovations arise more out of the desire to profit from waste or surplus products than the quest to meet human need.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The baby food companies can maintain good profit margins as long as women hear what a marvellous thing breastfeeding is without getting…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“One target of the fifth UN Millennium Development Goal (UNMDG) to improve maternal health, is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women were forbidden to suckle for longer than sixteen months and were separated from their children at this stage. Slave owners wanted…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Even for healthy, low-risk women, the routine use of stirrups, restraining straps, shaving, episiotomies and forceps made the majority of births abusive…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I know that stating these facts can be painful or even enraging to some women who have not breastfed their children, but…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The idea that more dead babies will reduce world population is nonsense and in fact has the opposite effect. It has been…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“There is no government in the world that fully respects nomads or other ‘Stone Age’ people. At best they are ignored; more…

— 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

“Artificial feeding is risky. This basic fact upsets people who feel insulted if they or their mothers did not breastfeed but most…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Diet before and during pregnancy does make a difference to whether a baby is born healthy, but lactation is astonishingly robust and…

— 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

“Between 1983 and 1991, the AAP received contributions from infant formula companies which amounted to US$8.3 million, in addition to the income…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The excuses for female exclusion per se are strikingly parallel to those for breastfeeding couples. Women are ‘shrill’; babies are noisy; women…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“it is an oversimplification to pinpoint just one as a cause of breastfeeding decline. The common factors that have been repeated around…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Away from the workplace these same workers might pay to watch a woman expose her breasts for the sexual stimulation of strangers.…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“10. Unsuitable products should not be promoted for babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Her faith in the process was the only supplement needed.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“1. No advertising of breastmilk substitutes, feeding bottles or teats.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Paediatric wards are not full of exclusively breastfed babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Nearly half of all human beings live on less than US$2 a day.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In Uganda there is one nurse per 5,000 people and one doctor per 24,700.14”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Humans are herd animals and we tend to do what everyone else does.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“3. No promotion of products in or through healthcare facilities.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer