Assumed Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Without special interventions such as a policy overhaul or staff training, breastfeeding help is not a priority. Staff might be reprimanded if they are…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— 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

“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

“When health workers ask a woman, ‘Are you going to try and breastfeed?’7 they imply the likelihood of failure.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“No woman need feel guilty for ‘failing’ to breastfeed, though she has the right to feel angry or sad for being denied support and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Faith alone does not make breastfeeding easy in a society ignorant of ordinary techniques, but where breastfeeding is still normal, the fact that a…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A girl would have learned how to breastfeed by seeing it done a thousand and one times, just as she learned how to stack…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastmilk changes over the hours, weeks and months, according to a baby’s needs; and it changes during a breastfeed.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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