Brain damage Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“The BFHI was designed to protect and promote exclusive breastfeeding, but its provisions always included the acceptance of medically indicated replacement feeding. When this…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When a nursing mother encounters infectious agents in her gut and lung—the main routes of human infection—the antibodies that she forms will travel to…

— Sarah Buckley

“Giving a baby anything other than breastmilk before six months increases the risk of infection, allergy and even death.”

— 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

“Artificial milk, baby foods and bottles do. They kill babies and small children by transmitting infections because it is very difficult to use such…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is…

— Archie Kalokerinos

I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at…

— Chelsea Handler

'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Even common colds can cause fatal outbreaks in nursing homes.

— Zeynep Tufekci

“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

“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt away.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“An Rh negative mother’s blood is said to be “sensitized” when this process has taken place. Procedures such as amniocentesis, aggressive external version, and…

— Ina May Gaskin