Around the world Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could prevent more…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“87% of mothers used artificial milk because they believed that the hospital staff had advised to do so. In reality they had been advised…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastmilk substitutes can be useful, life-saving products, just as artificial insulin can save the lives of diabetics, but no honest doctor could advocate the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial feeding is risky. This basic fact upsets people who feel insulted if they or their mothers did not breastfeed but most women do…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Those who market artificial baby milk, bottles, teats and the essential cleaning materials benefit financially from keeping breastfeeding in check.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.”

— 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

“Health officials from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Israel have all issued warnings against the use of soya-based artificial milks for babies.”

— 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

“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through reducing the…

— Gabrielle Palmer