“The feeding of a baby does provoke something far stronger than sexuality. It is a demonstration of power that is exclusively female… — Gabrielle Palmer Feeding Copy Share Image
“In the same way, breastfeeding is seen as a woman’s topic. Though women are often told whether or not they should do… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The BFHI was designed to protect and promote exclusive breastfeeding, but its provisions always included the acceptance of medically indicated replacement feeding.… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“In less developed countries, the best form of promoting baby food formulas may well be the clinics which the company sponsors, at… — Gabrielle Palmer Business 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
“The strength for the worker in the new system was in numbers; many men and women resisted, organised, suffered and died to… — Gabrielle Palmer Feminism Copy Share Image
“When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could… — Gabrielle Palmer Children Copy Share Image
“Fertility is seen as a female ‘problem’; whether discouraged or enforced by the vagaries of political, demographic and cultural decisions, it must… — Gabrielle Palmer Feminism Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“The human species has only engaged in agriculture and pasturage for 12,000 to 15,000 years, a mere 1% of our time on… — Gabrielle Palmer Human species 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
“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
“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
“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
“People often discuss why so many women do not breastfeed or give up quickly. I believe it is firm evidence of the… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
“Some people feel angry or upset when they think a baby is dominating the attention of an adult, perhaps because it unconsciously… — Gabrielle Palmer People Feel Copy Share Image
“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive… — Gabrielle Palmer 1881 Copy Share Image
“No amount of advice will prevent the women from carrying on this deadly habit.” This was written in 1917, but the attitude… — Gabrielle Palmer Breastfeeding 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 Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
