“One sad fact of the 20th century was that the more contact mothers had with health workers, the less they breastfed.5” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Chart 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
“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 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
“How many doctors and paediatricians actually get their free samples laboratory tested and give them thorough ‘scientific assessment’?” — Gabrielle Palmer Doctor Copy Share Image
“Bathing removes the vernix, the waxy film on a baby’s skin, which is there to protect him from cold and abrasion.” — Gabrielle Palmer Bathing Copy Share Image
“Delivering milk to babies grew to be a large-scale task for businessmen, who presented themselves as philanthropists and lifesavers.” — Gabrielle Palmer Businessmen Copy Share Image
“In the struggle for power, or simply economic survival in the modern world, many women who have children find that they must… — Gabrielle Palmer Children 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely,… — Gabrielle Palmer Death Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is so culturally dominated that often the individual feels what she or he is conditioned to feel and this domination leads… — Gabrielle Palmer Sexuality Copy Share Image
“Until power structures change so that women are recognised and rewarded, gain full access to the means of economic independence and take… — Gabrielle Palmer Economic independence Copy Share Image
“For the greater part of human existence we went bare-breasted and were accustomed to the great diversity of breast shape. Now instead… — Gabrielle Palmer Human existence 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 Dominant Group 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
“Babies can translate the nutrient needs of their tiny bodies into their suckling behaviours, but medical rules based on mistaken theories have… — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“For several hundred years before the eighteenth century, Roman Catholic doctrine advised wet nursing “to provide for the frailty of the husband… — Gabrielle Palmer Catholic Doctrine Copy Share Image
“In industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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
“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“A millionaire’s baby who is not breastfed is less healthy than an exclusively breastfed baby whose mother is in the poorest social… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The production of milk works on the supply and demand principle. The more often the baby suckles, the more milk is made.” — Gabrielle Palmer Milk Copy Share Image
“The number of unwanted pregnancies (and miscarriages) will have increased all over the world where medical advice and commercial misinformation have interfered… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a… — Gabrielle Palmer Brain Copy Share Image
“A breast is the best comforter, yet in western society it has been viewed merely as a conveyor of ‘feeds’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breast Copy Share Image
“Studies from rich countries show that C-Section mothers are less likely to be breastfeeding at two weeks than those who delivered vaginally.25” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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
“880,000 babies could be saved simply by not removing them from their mothers, and by supporting early suckling.” — Gabrielle Palmer 000 Babies Copy Share Image
“The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt… — Gabrielle Palmer Birthing Copy Share Image
“More than a third of deaths in children under five happen during the first month of life (about four million babies). Breastfeeding… — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to be stroked and touched and the benefits of skin contact do not just affect mothers and babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Black women have suffered more coercion into sterilisation or the use of riskier forms of contraception.30” — Gabrielle Palmer Black women Copy Share Image
“There is more prolactin in a woman’s bloodstream at night, indicating that over the millennia babies have taken more milk from their… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
