“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
“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
“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
“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
“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as… — Gabrielle Palmer Hunger and poverty Copy Share Image
“Before these changes in policy the economic activity rates for both men and women had been recorded as equal at about 98%;… — Gabrielle Palmer Change 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
“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“When the agents of public health lament the fact that poor black women breastfeed too little and conceive too much, they forget… — Gabrielle Palmer Black women 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
“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
“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Confidence, passed on with a bit of technique by other experienced breastfeeding mothers, is still the key to happy breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Most of us are irrational about risk.1 We leap into our cars without a second thought but pray when we get on… — Gabrielle Palmer Irrational 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 Women Shouted Copy Share Image
“Health worker practices have proved hard to change, because the commercial links have become such an intrinsic part of their lives.” — Gabrielle Palmer Change Copy Share Image
“Some western women stop breastfeeding early ‘for the marriage’s sake’, as though a physical bond with the baby prevents a happy sex… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Slave Copy Share Image
“Our class owes its uniqueness to mothering and lactation; indeed that is why it is called ‘mammalia’, after the mammary glands.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“It is now known that even in a rich country, a millionaire’s baby who is artificially fed is less healthy than the… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“6. Labels should be in an appropriate language and have no words or pictures idealising artificial feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Labels 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Full-term healthy babies are extremely adept at organising their meals to suit themselves and their mothers’ bodies – if only other people… — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“Observation of animals revealed the fact that infants were rejected if the mother could not nuzzle them within a certain time.” — Gabrielle Palmer Animals Copy Share Image
