Parenting Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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 societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were too delicate…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do it.”

— 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