“Commercially prepared formula is recommended for infants during the first 6 to 12 months.” — Gabrielle Palmer 12 Months Copy Share Image
“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.” — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“Japan loves bedsharing and there are lower SIDS than the west.” — Gabrielle Palmer Japan Copy Share Image
“Handing out a free sample is taking a stand against breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?” — Gabrielle Palmer Assumed Copy Share Image
“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.” — Gabrielle Palmer Feminism Copy Share Image
“Most humans who have walked this earth never drank a drop of nonhuman milk.” — Gabrielle Palmer Milk Copy Share Image
“The scandal of death through childbirth is not an argument for routine medicalised, interventionist birth, though it is often used as an… — Gabrielle Palmer Death Copy Share Image
“As it became usual for the noble baby to be wet nursed, it became more difficult for a mother to defy custom.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting 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 Food Copy Share Image
“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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The Code does not restrict the sale and availability of breastmilk substitutes. It bans all advertising, but endorses the provision of scientific… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Misguided Propaganda 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
“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 Breast Copy Share Image
“Despite scientific evidence that (except in rare medical cases) anything other than breastmilk interferes with the establishment of breastfeeding and may do… — Gabrielle Palmer Around the world 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
“It is not easy to establish exclusive breastfeeding in a world where mixed feeding is normal, but it is possible as researchers… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Fresh non-human milk can make a useful contribution to the diet, but it is not essential and for many people it is… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“Early suckling helps expel any fragments of placenta and stems post-natal bleeding; it also prevents engorgement, mastitis and abscesses which could lead… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The USA has no federal legislation concerning maternity protection, let alone breastfeeding breaks, and despite some high profile companies supporting breastfeeding employees,… — Gabrielle Palmer High profile Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding in industrialised society is closely bound up with perceptions of sexuality. The very reason it is frowned upon in public is… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“In societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk is designed for rapid digestion and frequent feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“About one-sixth of the world’s population, over a billion people, lack access to safe water.” — Gabrielle Palmer Water Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding works better with bed sharing and breastfeeding is protective against SIDS.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“In the west the culture is to try and ignore a baby, even when she is crying pitifully.” — Gabrielle Palmer Crying Copy Share Image
“A tin of infant formula is often the most expensive food item a family has ever purchased.” — Gabrielle Palmer Expensive Copy Share Image
“All women need practical and emotional support around birth.” — Gabrielle Palmer Birth Copy Share Image
“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Artificial Copy Share Image
“A girl would have learned how to breastfeed by seeing it done a thousand and one times, just as she learned how… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“in a middle-class US suburb, medical costs for artificially fed babies were fifteen times that for breastfed babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Medical Costs 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
