“One target of the fifth UN Millennium Development Goal (UNMDG) to improve maternal health, is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015.” — Gabrielle Palmer Death Copy Share Image
“137 million women who want to space or limit their pregnancies use no contraception, usually because they have no access to family… — Gabrielle Palmer Family Copy Share Image
“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely,… — Gabrielle Palmer Death 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
“12. Manufacturers and distributors should comply with the Code (and all subsequent WHA Resolutions on infant feeding) independently of any government action… — Gabrielle Palmer Politics Copy Share Image
“Health worker practices have proved hard to change, because the commercial links have become such an intrinsic part of their lives.” — Gabrielle Palmer Health Copy Share Image
“Between 1983 and 1991, the AAP received contributions from infant formula companies which amounted to US$8.3 million, in addition to the income… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“About one-sixth of the world’s population, over a billion people, lack access to safe water.” — Gabrielle Palmer Water 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Giving a baby anything other than breastmilk before six months increases the risk of infection, allergy and even death.” — Gabrielle Palmer Death Copy Share Image
“All women need practical and emotional support around birth.” — Gabrielle Palmer Emotional support Copy Share Image
“A millionaire’s baby who is not breastfed is less healthy than an exclusively breastfed baby whose mother is in the poorest social… — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“The German word for breastfeeding, ‘Stillen’, means to quieten and soothe as well as to give the breast.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Nowadays any well-run maternity unit would not wash babies at birth.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“in Ward One, run by medical students, childbed fever raged and 29% of women died. In Ward Two, run by midwifery pupils,… — Gabrielle Palmer Medical Student Copy Share Image
“In societies where there is no shame about breastfeeding, the ordinary man is not driven into a frenzy by the sight of… — Gabrielle Palmer Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“Despite scientific evidence that (except in rare medical cases) anything other than breastmilk interferes with the establishment of breastfeeding and may do… — Gabrielle Palmer Around the world Copy Share Image
“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of dairy cows has exceeded that of human lactation and has had a misleading influence on the understanding of human… — Gabrielle Palmer Learning 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 Copy Share Image
“Many mothers were convinced that artificial milk was a medicine, especially as it was endorsed and distributed through healthcare channels.” — Gabrielle Palmer Parenting Copy Share Image
“The bonding effects of suckling can be stronger than giving birth.” — Gabrielle Palmer Giving birth Copy Share Image
“Even in the USA, where artificial feeding is assumed to be safe, it has been calculated that 720 babies between the age… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
