“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through… — Gabrielle Palmer Children 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 Human life 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“all over the world women are impeded from protecting their own and their babies’ health, and often survival, because of factors beyond… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“A slave was the property of his or her master as were all the women in his family, and it was argued… — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Television, film and computer visuals reflect our values when they show sexual contact and aggressive conflict as common images, but rarely show… — Gabrielle Palmer Computers 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“Enterobacter sakazakii causes a life-threatening meningitis and survivors may be brain damaged. No exclusively breastfed baby is known to have been infected… — Gabrielle Palmer Brain damage Copy Share Image
“In less developed countries, the best form of promoting baby food formulas may well be the clinics which the company sponsors, at… — Gabrielle Palmer Business Copy Share Image
“If you live in Sierra Leone or Afghanistan it is highly likely that you have lost a relative or friend this way.… — Gabrielle Palmer Friendship Copy Share Image
“In a 1925 report on infant feeding there was the regretful statement that “some mothers had not even seen a clock and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.” — Gabrielle Palmer Fear Copy Share Image
“misguided propaganda on infant feeding should be punished as the most miserable form of sedition, and that these deaths should be regarded… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A baby’s crying is biologically designed to motivate us to stop it.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women had worked at heavy jobs for centuries alongside men.21 They were now barred from heavy, manual, wage-earning labour, only to carry… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There are no memorials to the thousands of women who died prematurely through extreme physical hardship. These were the women who produced… — Gabrielle Palmer North america Copy Share Image
“What is most poignant is how grateful women are for brief periods of health, or if their husband is ‘good’ – that… — Gabrielle Palmer Gratitude 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 Health Copy Share Image
“Doctors, however, are just as vulnerable to marketing tactics as the rest of us; companies merely use different methods to seduce them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Medicine Copy Share Image
“Nowadays many psychologists have found evidence that post traumatic stress disorder can be a cause of long-term emotional and physical problems, even… — Gabrielle Palmer Stress 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 Nurse Copy Share Image
“nutrition in early infancy plays a part in age of menarche indicates that perhaps stopping breastfeeding, giving extra artificial feeds or introducing… — Gabrielle Palmer Life Copy Share Image
“In the 21st century 200 million women who want to limit their childbearing have no access to contraception or family planning services.18” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“Scandinavia and Holland became safer places to give birth long before the UK and USA. They established high-quality training of midwives and… — Gabrielle Palmer Fitness Copy Share Image
