Quote by Gabrielle Palmer Download Open image ““For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.”” — Gabrielle Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“In societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Confidence plays a huge part and if a woman has seen breastfeeding all her life and assumes it works, then she will have it.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“People often discuss why so many women do not breastfeed or give up quickly. I believe it is firm evidence of the determination of… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding does not have to be hard. Breastfeeding is natural. With rare exceptions, it becomes hard only because of all the interference caused by the medicalization of birth and unsupportive culture. Animals breastfeed instinctively with no need for supplementation, classes, or support. We as humans also have these instincts. We have become so disconnected. Breastfeeding my children has been one… — Adrienne Carmack Copy Share
“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women report that it is often other women who ask them to stop breastfeeding or leave a café or other public place.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Babies who do not sleep ‘through the night’ alone in a cot, as soon as possible after birth, are seen as a ‘problem’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In some countries, pumping has become the default method of expression, and hand expression has become an afterthought. It would be safer if it… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a baby is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding mothers, sleeping by their babies in three-sided cribs with the open side joined to the adult bed, respond quite differently from mothers whose… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It seems likely that if you are told that your vagina is so ill-designed that it must be cut open to perform a normal… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time can greatly… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
