“A girl would have learned how to breastfeed by seeing it done a thousand and one times, just as she learned how… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The unstable heart rates, irregular breathing and purposeless movements of a newborn alone in an incubator or crib may be signs of… — Gabrielle Palmer Born alone 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
“Graduate couples were offered free holidays in romantic places in an attempt to induce them to breed,” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“Diet before and during pregnancy does make a difference to whether a baby is born healthy, but lactation is astonishingly robust and… — Gabrielle Palmer Anorexia Nervosa Copy Share Image
“Despite consistent evidence about the harm they do, commercial baby food products still get distributed in areas where they are deadly and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s the Singapore government gave preferential school admission to the children of mothers with university degrees, while offering less-educated women… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“How many doctors and paediatricians actually get their free samples laboratory tested and give them thorough ‘scientific assessment’?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Continued resistance to female education means that female illiteracy is higher than male, yet it is usually women who do the artificial… — Gabrielle Palmer Education Copy Share Image
“5. No gifts or personal samples to health workers or their families.” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember that it is still only a minority of the world’s population that can be artificially fed from… — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Copy Share Image
“Anthropologist Kathy Dettwyler has considered a range of physiological and other signs and judges that between two and a half and seven… — Gabrielle Palmer 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
“Textbook of Pediatrics there is a chart of commercial food composition; a footnote states that data are supplied by the companies.27” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The focus on the ‘problems’ of the rich was more profitable and less distressing than trying to tackle the insurmountable troubles of… — Gabrielle Palmer Money Copy Share Image
“Just a few hundred years ago, most human societies found breast exposure in everyday life unremarkable. What has happened to us?” — Gabrielle Palmer Day life Copy Share Image
“Women have the right to choose how they use their bodies and they cannot (and should not) be forced to breastfeed, but… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most humans who have walked this earth never drank a drop of nonhuman milk.” — Gabrielle Palmer Nature 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Breasts are sexually stimulating, but so are legs, lips and the nape of the neck, to name a few focuses of visual… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“Feeding cereals and solid foods early is not just a waste of time, money and effort, it does harm.” — Gabrielle Palmer Money Copy Share Image
“a high protein diet is not good for a young infant. The main task of making cows’ milk into an ‘infant formula’… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
