“Black women have suffered more coercion into sterilisation or the use of riskier forms of contraception.30” — Gabrielle Palmer Black women Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding in industrialised society is closely bound up with perceptions of sexuality. The very reason it is frowned upon in public is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“To this day ‘insufficient milk’ is the commonest reason that women give for abandoning breastfeeding. This is more common in societies where… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Immunologist Lars Hanson views not being breastfed as a state of immunodeficiency.38” — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Failure Copy Share Image
“A mother’s breast is like an efficient pharmacist: it produces general disease preventing substances for everyday use and then makes up specific… — Gabrielle Palmer Everyday use Copy Share Image
“People often discuss why so many women do not breastfeed or give up quickly. I believe it is firm evidence of the… — Gabrielle Palmer Giving birth Copy Share Image
“The feeding of a baby does provoke something far stronger than sexuality. It is a demonstration of power that is exclusively female… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is a requirement of the BFHI accreditation that all breastfeeding women be taught hand expression.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“One sad fact of the 20th century was that the more contact mothers had with health workers, the less they breastfed.5” — Gabrielle Palmer Health 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 Health Copy Share Image
“3. No promotion of products in or through healthcare facilities.” — Gabrielle Palmer Marketing Copy Share Image
“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“The strength for the worker in the new system was in numbers; many men and women resisted, organised, suffered and died to… — Gabrielle Palmer Men and women Copy Share Image
“The unfamiliarity of the hospital ward, the busyness of the staff and the presence of strangers, can all inhibit a woman, as… — Gabrielle Palmer Around the world Copy Share Image
“Women were forbidden to suckle for longer than sixteen months and were separated from their children at this stage. Slave owners wanted… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the west the culture is to try and ignore a baby, even when she is crying pitifully.” — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45” — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Children Copy Share Image
“It has become socially acceptable for a baby to suck anything, be it bottle, dummy, soft toy, blanket or the nearest adult… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In Victorian England, famous for its prudery, a respectable woman could feed openly in church,37 yet in contemporary industrialised society where women’s… — Gabrielle Palmer Men and women Copy Share Image
“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer 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
“few additives have been investigated in relation to their effects on very young children. It is therefore prudent that foods intended for… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
