“Having more than one wife was seen as unchristian, but rape within monogamous marriage was accepted.” — Gabrielle Palmer Marriage Copy Share Image
“The old country midwives helped with the washing and household tasks and could always be paid with produce or later favours, but… — Gabrielle Palmer Family 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is so culturally dominated that often the individual feels what she or he is conditioned to feel and this domination leads… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A breast is the best comforter, yet in western society it has been viewed merely as a conveyor of ‘feeds’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The USA has no federal legislation concerning maternity protection, let alone breastfeeding breaks, and despite some high profile companies supporting breastfeeding employees,… — Gabrielle Palmer High profile Copy Share Image
“If advertising simply provided information, it would be hard to object. But a lot of advertising makes us feel we need something… — Gabrielle Palmer Marketing Copy Share Image
“9. All information on artificial feeding, including labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding and warn of the costs and hazards associated… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Informed choice is the mantra of western society and is seen as a right, but few parents are fully informed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Infant formula samples are placed in ‘discharge bags’ full of promotional products. These are presented as attractive gifts when in fact they… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“If they are not prevented from doing so, the majority of babies have the power to stimulate the manufacture of their own… — Gabrielle Palmer Food supply Copy Share Image
“Until power structures change so that women are recognised and rewarded, gain full access to the means of economic independence and take… — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Six months 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 Copy Share Image
“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they… — Gabrielle Palmer 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 Health Copy Share Image
“Babies know how to crawl to the breast and, through touch, smell and sight, find the areola (that is why it darkens… — Gabrielle Palmer Birth 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
“No medical student was trained in the subject, although as a qualified doctor, he (rarely she) miraculously acquired the authority to tell… — Gabrielle Palmer Good enough 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“I know that stating these facts can be painful or even enraging to some women who have not breastfed their children, but… — Gabrielle Palmer Children 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 Risk Copy Share Image
“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
