“Health officials from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Israel have all issued warnings against the use of soya-based artificial milks… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“It is a ridiculous word, reminiscent of the pseudo-science of those doctors, and it is a measure of the triumph of marketing… — Gabrielle Palmer Medicine Copy Share Image
“Even if [the DHA/ARA blend] has no benefit, we think it would be widely incorporated into formulas, as a marketing tool and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The wealth of the three richest men is equal to the combined wealth of the 48 poorest countries.” — Gabrielle Palmer Money Copy Share Image
“In societies where babies are nurtured, not left to cry, and are breastfed whenever they ask, not only are those babies more… — Gabrielle Palmer Happiness Copy Share Image
“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products… — Gabrielle Palmer Medical profession Copy Share Image
“Most people think first of safe water for drinking and cooking, but water’s role in hygiene is crucial for survival.” — Gabrielle Palmer Water Copy Share Image
“The choice of ingredient used to supply the proteins to infant formulae will depend on two main factors, the price and the… — 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“Observation of animals revealed the fact that infants were rejected if the mother could not nuzzle them within a certain time.” — Gabrielle Palmer Animals Copy Share Image
“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as… — Gabrielle Palmer Hunger and poverty Copy Share Image
“The drugs commonly used for pain relief in labour can adversely affect the baby’s responses and make him reluctant to breastfeed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Pain relief Copy Share Image
“women found physical hardship more endurable than anxiety, their ‘nerves’, and the consciousness that their never-ending reproductive state could lead to death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Death Copy Share Image
“It is almost unknown for a mammal in her normal environment to produce live young and be unable to produce the milk… — Gabrielle Palmer Live Young Copy Share Image
“The fact of women’s separate biological capacities has been used as a pretext for excluding women from the centres of power. But… — Gabrielle Palmer Little Change Copy Share Image
“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.” — 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 Mother Copy Share Image
“In this precarious climate of employment, achieving basic health and safety standards in the workplace is hard enough; to ask for maternity… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“The excuses for female exclusion per se are strikingly parallel to those for breastfeeding couples. Women are ‘shrill’; babies are noisy; women… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some western women stop breastfeeding early ‘for the marriage’s sake’, as though a physical bond with the baby prevents a happy sex… — Gabrielle Palmer Life Copy Share Image
“An average person in a poor country uses just 10 litres of water a day; in a rich country the figure is… — Gabrielle Palmer Average person Copy Share Image
