Parenting Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“It is now known that even in a rich country, a millionaire’s baby who is artificially fed is less healthy than the exclusively breastfed…

— 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

“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12”

— 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

“It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for love from…

— Keith Ablow

“Health is wealth but being wealthy does not mean one is healthy.”

— Osunsakin Adewale

“In spite of continual railing against those unworthy mothers who did not suckle their babies, there was little interest or research into the causes…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“in a middle-class US suburb, medical costs for artificially fed babies were fifteen times that for breastfed babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.”

— Gabrielle Palmer