“What is most poignant is how grateful women are for brief periods of health, or if their husband is ‘good’ – that… — Gabrielle Palmer Grateful Copy Share Image
“A common North American and European attitude is to criticise a low-income family but accept profligate fertility among the rich.” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Babies get more infections, more allergies and are more likely to die if they get complementary foods before six months.57” — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“all over the world women are impeded from protecting their own and their babies’ health, and often survival, because of factors beyond… — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time… — Gabrielle Palmer Brain Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Slavery 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Parents who believe they must leave their baby to cry and sleep alone from an early age, will tuck numerous cuddly toy… — Gabrielle Palmer Baby Copy Share Image
“It is cheaper and more efficient to replace labour than to reproduce it sequentially by fulfilling the rights of women workers to… — Gabrielle Palmer Labour Copy Share Image
“A mother who wants to hold her baby most of the time is judged eccentric and often accused of ‘spoiling’ him. The… — Gabrielle Palmer Mother Copy Share Image
“There are no memorials to the thousands of women who died prematurely through extreme physical hardship. These were the women who produced… — Gabrielle Palmer Feminism Copy Share Image
“Almost in their sleep, mothers respond, stroke and suckle their babies throughout the night. All the mothers unconsciously sleep in a special… — Gabrielle Palmer Mothers Copy Share Image
“An analysis of the effect of sponsorship on doctors showed that 61% of physicians believe that promotions do not influence their own… — Gabrielle Palmer Doctor Copy Share Image
“Because people who live in richer regions are often unclear why artificial feeding is so dangerous in poorer regions it is important… — Gabrielle Palmer Life 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
“When health workers ask a woman, ‘Are you going to try and breastfeed?’7 they imply the likelihood of failure.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the thymus gland (which controls the development of the immune response) of an exclusively breastfed baby is double the size of… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfed Baby Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk changes over the hours, weeks and months, according to a baby’s needs; and it changes during a breastfeed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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
“In societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The choice of ingredient used to supply the proteins to infant formulae will depend on two main factors, the price and the… — Gabrielle Palmer Food Copy Share Image
“What the milk depots established was the link between artificial milk distribution and the health centres which persists to this day, the… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“If poor people were not diagnosed as incompetent, to whom would the experts sell their expertise?” — Gabrielle Palmer Poor people Copy Share Image
“8. Governments should ensure that objective and consistent information is provided on infant and young child feeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Children 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
“In some countries, pumping has become the default method of expression, and hand expression has become an afterthought. It would be safer… — Gabrielle Palmer Pumping Copy Share Image
“Feeding cereals and solid foods early is not just a waste of time, money and effort, it does harm.” — Gabrielle Palmer Feeding Copy Share Image
“In the USA, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) accepts artificial-milk company money and promotion which defies the WHO Code.15” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.” — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Ask a roomful of people what ‘weaning’ means and each assumes they all have the same understanding. They do not.” — Gabrielle Palmer Weaning Copy Share Image
“women found physical hardship more endurable than anxiety, their ‘nerves’, and the consciousness that their never-ending reproductive state could lead to death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Death Copy Share Image
“Babies who do not sleep ‘through the night’ alone in a cot, as soon as possible after birth, are seen as a… — Gabrielle Palmer Babies Copy Share Image
“Most people think first of safe water for drinking and cooking, but water’s role in hygiene is crucial for survival.” — Gabrielle Palmer Hygiene Copy Share Image
“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The fact that a woman in power must hide female qualities like lactation, is a measure of continuing male dominance.” — Gabrielle Palmer Dominance Copy Share Image
“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.” — Gabrielle Palmer Milk Copy Share Image
“The development of the infant food industry has depended on the repeated testing of unproven products on unsuspecting consumers without their informed… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“In the 21st century 200 million women who want to limit their childbearing have no access to contraception or family planning services.18” — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
