“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breast Copy Share Image
“The discouragement of sleeping with the baby at night, which had been the norm since the dawn of human life, spread throughout… — Gabrielle Palmer 19th century Copy Share Image
“The term ‘infant formula’ was a stroke of marketing genius, it made a recipe based on ordinary old cows’ milk seem like… — Gabrielle Palmer Milk Copy Share Image
“I drove my own children in a car without safety seats in the days before they were used. I cannot say, ‘well… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“Doctors, however, are just as vulnerable to marketing tactics as the rest of us; companies merely use different methods to seduce them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Doctor Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of dairy cows has exceeded that of human lactation and has had a misleading influence on the understanding of human… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“When mothers are allowed and encouraged to be intuitive and responsive to their babies’ cues, the pair adapt to each other rapidly… — Gabrielle Palmer Mothers 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
“In the past, rich women had frequently delegated childcare to a wet nurse. As doctors and companies began to promote and provide… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The AAP, an organisation supposedly concerned with child health, considered quality control an extravagance, whilst millions of dollars were, and are, spent… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“87% of mothers used artificial milk because they believed that the hospital staff had advised to do so. In reality they had… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“In societies where babies are nurtured, not left to cry, and are breastfed whenever they ask, not only are those babies more… — Gabrielle Palmer Happiness Copy Share Image
“Without special interventions such as a policy overhaul or staff training, breastfeeding help is not a priority. Staff might be reprimanded if… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“No medical student was trained in the subject, although as a qualified doctor, he (rarely she) miraculously acquired the authority to tell… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“It is a requirement of the BFHI accreditation that all breastfeeding women be taught hand expression.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Artificial feeding requires medical services to be nearby. In much of the world, access to medical care is scarce and services overstretched.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Eroticism Copy Share Image
“The fact that some men (and their families) behave decently does not negate the unequal power structure.” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“It is a ridiculous word, reminiscent of the pseudo-science of those doctors, and it is a measure of the triumph of marketing… — Gabrielle Palmer Medicine Copy Share Image
“Premature breastmilk is different in composition to full term milk, and adapted to the baby’s need.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Breast Copy Share Image
“If she then has to cry to communicate her hunger, when she gets to her mother’s breast she might be too exhausted… — Gabrielle Palmer Mother 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 Artificial Copy Share Image
“In spite of continual railing against those unworthy mothers who did not suckle their babies, there was little interest or research into… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.” — Gabrielle Palmer Poor World Copy Share Image
“The women who do abruptly deny the breast believe that it is in their children’s best interest. It can lead to malnutrition… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The destruction of breastfeeding threatens our ecosystem as much as over-fishing, over-grazing or forest destruction.” — Gabrielle Palmer Destruction Copy Share Image
“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Doctor 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 World population Copy Share Image
“The Code’s purpose is transparent; like international football rules, it aims to make the game fair for everyone – except that infant… — Gabrielle Palmer Life 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 Celibacy Copy Share Image
“Many people have felt hungry, yet too upset to eat, but they forget that babies are people too. No adult would enjoy… — Gabrielle Palmer Food Copy Share Image
“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The goal of independence starts at birth and mothers who want to stay with their infants most of the time are viewed… — Gabrielle Palmer Birth Copy Share Image
“In every country, rich or poor, thousands of babies are treated for illness every day because they are given foods and fluids… — Gabrielle Palmer Every day Copy Share Image
“sleeping ‘through the night’, even for adults, is a particularly modern concept linked with industrialisation.” — Gabrielle Palmer Industrialisation Copy Share Image
“The hospital’s endorsement of early artificial feeding conveyed the idea that it was a safe feeding method.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“If you consider that all women are designed to feed twins, then you realise that feeding one baby is unlikely to tax… — Gabrielle Palmer Twins Copy Share Image
