“To this day women may be told to ‘hold the nipple and breast between the fingers so that the baby can breathe’.… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In industrialised societies, the advertising of baby milks and bottles and the doubts of health workers and families provide the modern curses… — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“Millions who have ‘tried’ to breastfeed gave up because general ignorance, hospital and health workers’ practices, all interwoven with cleverly targeted product… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“Always when the baby cries, we feel our milk returning: acting with energy and speed, we do our duty” sang the famous… — Gabrielle Palmer Nurse Copy Share Image
“Babies can translate the nutrient needs of their tiny bodies into their suckling behaviours, but medical rules based on mistaken theories have… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is cheaper and more efficient to replace labour than to reproduce it sequentially by fulfilling the rights of women workers to… — Gabrielle Palmer Maternity leave Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is far more likely to be problem-free and continue for longer if there has been early, uninterrupted skin contact.3” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“4. No contact between marketing personnel and mothers (including health workers paid by a company to advise or teach).” — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“In Uganda there is one nurse per 5,000 people and one doctor per 24,700.14” — Gabrielle Palmer Nurse Copy Share Image
“880,000 babies could be saved simply by not removing them from their mothers, and by supporting early suckling.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a mother’s body warms up if her baby is cool or cools down if he is too hot.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“in 2007, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons presented research showing that breastfeeding, even for a long time, does not make breasts… — Gabrielle Palmer American society 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 Health Copy Share Image
“In 54 of the 68 poorest countries where 97% of mother and child deaths occur there are glaring disparities between rich and poor.” — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“By taking away women’s primordial right to sustain their own children with their own milk, through the destruction of traditional knowledge and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A tin of infant formula is often the most expensive food item a family has ever purchased.” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“Women report that it is often other women who ask them to stop breastfeeding or leave a café or other public place.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“individual sexual drive varies greatly, that penetrative intercourse is not the only means of sexual satisfaction and that celibacy never killed anyone.” — Gabrielle Palmer Motivation Copy Share Image
“infants fed SIFs have been placed at risk in “a large, uncontrolled and basically unmonitored human infant experiment”.75” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.” — Gabrielle Palmer Failure Copy Share Image
“I have seen abdomens pummelled, stretched-out hands disregarded, and have met women who were shouted at and even slapped during labour.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk changes over the hours, weeks and months, according to a baby’s needs; and it changes during a breastfeed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“8. Governments should ensure that objective and consistent information is provided on infant and young child feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
