“11. All products should be of a high quality and take account of the climatic and storage conditions of the country where… — Gabrielle Palmer Climatic Copy Share Image
“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.” — 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
“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
“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
“Artificial milk, baby foods and bottles do. They kill babies and small children by transmitting infections because it is very difficult to… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“It seems likely that if you are told that your vagina is so ill-designed that it must be cut open to perform… — Gabrielle Palmer Breasts Copy Share Image
“Even if [the DHA/ARA blend] has no benefit, we think it would be widely incorporated into formulas, as a marketing tool and… — Gabrielle Palmer Human Milk Copy Share Image
“Despite consistent evidence about the harm they do, commercial baby food products still get distributed in areas where they are deadly and… — Gabrielle Palmer Baby Food Copy Share Image
“Millions who have ‘tried’ to breastfeed gave up because general ignorance, hospital and health workers’ practices, all interwoven with cleverly targeted product… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Television, film and computer visuals reflect our values when they show sexual contact and aggressive conflict as common images, but rarely show… — Gabrielle Palmer Computers Copy Share Image
“The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect… — Gabrielle Palmer Feminism Copy Share Image
“The fact that responding to a child’s needs by giving her the breast was normal for 99.9% of humans’ existence, and ensured… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“The fact of women’s separate biological capacities has been used as a pretext for excluding women from the centres of power. But… — Gabrielle Palmer Feminism Copy Share Image
“Interventions such as weighing can be postponed until the baby has nuzzled and suckled without interruption; neither mother nor baby should be… — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“To this day women may be told to ‘hold the nipple and breast between the fingers so that the baby can breathe’.… — Gabrielle Palmer Nipple Copy Share Image
“In a 1925 report on infant feeding there was the regretful statement that “some mothers had not even seen a clock and… — Gabrielle Palmer Infant Feeding Copy Share Image
“Hospitals, designed originally for the battle-wounded, are noisy places where clattering trolleys, early waking for medical routines and night-lighting disrupt sleep. After… — Gabrielle Palmer Birth 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 Additives Copy Share Image
“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned… — Gabrielle Palmer Blaming Copy Share Image
“Breastmilk substitutes can be useful, life-saving products, just as artificial insulin can save the lives of diabetics, but no honest doctor could… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“A Chicago study of 20,000 infants, all from poor families, all under the supervision of local welfare clinics, revealed that at nine… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The current political climate is now one where the enduring marriage between doctors and baby food companies has spread into a veritable… — Gabrielle Palmer Big business 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
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“Nowadays many psychologists have found evidence that post traumatic stress disorder can be a cause of long-term emotional and physical problems, even… — Gabrielle Palmer Stress Copy Share Image
“A 1991 Swedish national survey revealed more complications and pain for women who had had episiotomies than for those with a spontaneous… — Gabrielle Palmer Episiotomies Spontaneous Copy Share Image
“Danone is the second biggest (after Nestlé) artificial milk and baby food manufacturer in the world. This was not stated on the… — Gabrielle Palmer Business Copy Share Image
“Waiting for two minutes, or until the cord has stopped pulsating, before clamping, enables blood transfer from the placenta to the baby.… — Gabrielle Palmer Transfer Placenta Copy Share Image
“When the baby food industry protests that they are not wholly responsible for the decline in breastfeeding they are right; the aid… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Soya contains phytoestrogens, naturally occurring plant chemicals similar to the human hormone oestrogen. These may influence the timing of puberty and menstruation,… — Gabrielle Palmer Food Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, women were presented with an illusion of liberation through the artificial feeding of babies, only to find their… — Gabrielle Palmer 20th century Copy Share Image
“We have organised our own lives to fit in with machines, much against our own biorhythms (the short night and siesta schedule… — Gabrielle Palmer Birth Copy Share Image
“The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that ‘nipple sucking’ is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother’s… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“To be a good mother, a woman is supposed to devote herself entirely to her children (and often a dependent and childlike… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“It is this ability to detach ourselves from other people’s tragedies that is so dangerous. It is this ‘switching off’ which allowed… — Gabrielle Palmer Nazis Copy Share Image
“How long a baby suckles has nothing to do with nipple damage. Most commonly it is due to the baby being prevented… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“a high protein diet is not good for a young infant. The main task of making cows’ milk into an ‘infant formula’… — Gabrielle Palmer Milk Copy Share Image
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