Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.”

— 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

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

— 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

“9. All information on artificial feeding, including labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding and warn of the costs and hazards associated with artificial feeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.”

— 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

“In many societies any non-human milk donation was interpreted as a health message to replace breastfeeding, an idea often endorsed by the resident foreigners’…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

— Mayim Bialik

“Modern health and aid workers still dole out artificial milk to breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, clinics and refugee camps because they do not like…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In the same way, breastfeeding is seen as a woman’s topic. Though women are often told whether or not they should do it, it…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women have the right to choose how they use their bodies and they cannot (and should not) be forced to breastfeed, but that does…

— Gabrielle Palmer