Activist Quote by Conan O'Brien

“When the baby food industry protests that they are not wholly responsible for the decline in breastfeeding they are right; the aid agencies as…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and distributing the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby-yeah, you better-because the price of milk is so high right now!

— Sarah

“Handing out a free sample is taking a stand against breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Using breasts for feeding a baby may be emotionally confusing if society and personal experience have emphasised their sexual and aesthetic functions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary women who…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Millions who have ‘tried’ to breastfeed gave up because general ignorance, hospital and health workers’ practices, all interwoven with cleverly targeted product promotion, sabotaged…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“One sad fact of the 20th century was that the more contact mothers had with health workers, the less they breastfed.5”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.”

— Gabrielle Palmer