Quote by Gabrielle Palmer Download Open image ““Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”” — Gabrielle Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and distributing the… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45” — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
