“sleeping ‘through the night’, even for adults, is a particularly modern concept linked with industrialisation.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“No woman need feel guilty for ‘failing’ to breastfeed, though she has the right to feel angry or sad for being denied… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Confidence, passed on with a bit of technique by other experienced breastfeeding mothers, is still the key to happy breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Confidence Copy Share Image
“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.” — Gabrielle Palmer Nature Copy Share Image
“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In 1967, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, as a means to increase the population, banned all contraception and abortion.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“in a middle-class US suburb, medical costs for artificially fed babies were fifteen times that for breastfed babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In western culture colostrum has, until recently, been viewed with indifference. The focus has often been on ‘waiting for the milk to… — Gabrielle Palmer Western culture Copy Share Image
“The process of the journey from the breast to adult eating habits can be made gentle or painful according to cultural approaches.” — Gabrielle Palmer Eating habits Copy Share Image
“The stress of rapid change, the absence of supportive female relatives and the attempt to adjust to an alien way of life… — Gabrielle Palmer Change Copy Share Image
“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive… — Gabrielle Palmer 1881 Copy Share Image
“1. No advertising of breastmilk substitutes, feeding bottles or teats.” — Gabrielle Palmer 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
“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 Money Copy Share Image
“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding works better with bed sharing and breastfeeding is protective against SIDS.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Between 1846 and 1876 about one in 200 women died within a month of giving birth.2” — Gabrielle Palmer Giving birth Copy Share Image
“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised… — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“In many societies any non-human milk donation was interpreted as a health message to replace breastfeeding, an idea often endorsed by the… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“The idea that more dead babies will reduce world population is nonsense and in fact has the opposite effect. It has been… — Gabrielle Palmer Family 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 Copy Share Image
