“In industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.” — Gabrielle Palmer Poverty Copy Share Image
“The role of the baby in all aspects of breastfeeding has been underestimated, and one scientist described this part aptly as “the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A successful cake is also a complex chemical reaction depending on precise proportions of ingredients, but cake is not called ‘formula’, whereas… — Gabrielle Palmer Success Copy Share Image
“I drove my own children in a car without safety seats in the days before they were used. I cannot say, ‘well… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“This separation increased the risk of infant hypothermia and reduced the important contraceptive protection of night suckling which is crucial to maintain… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Ask a roomful of people what ‘weaning’ means and each assumes they all have the same understanding. They do not.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Immunisation may not work so well because ‘take up’ (ie antibody response) of vaccines is poorer in a child deprived of the… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Time Copy Share Image
“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“A woman who came from northern Germany and wanted according to the customs of her homeland to nurse her infant herself was… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“That means not having a baby close to their body or in their bed and most definitely not giving a child free… — Gabrielle Palmer Children 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 Mother Copy Share Image
“Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Health workers, relatives and society as a whole pressure mothers to ‘get back to normal’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“The integration of mothers and babies into public life was viewed with ridicule and alarm in many societies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Life Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the thymus gland (which controls the development of the immune response) of an exclusively breastfed baby is double the size of… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The development of the infant food industry has depended on the repeated testing of unproven products on unsuspecting consumers without their informed… — Gabrielle Palmer Food industry Copy Share Image
“When the baby food industry protests that they are not wholly responsible for the decline in breastfeeding they are right; the aid… — Gabrielle Palmer Food industry 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 Health Copy Share Image
“For several hundred years before the eighteenth century, Roman Catholic doctrine advised wet nursing “to provide for the frailty of the husband… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The baby food companies can maintain good profit margins as long as women hear what a marvellous thing breastfeeding is without getting… — Gabrielle Palmer Profit margin 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
