Medical profession Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

““If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did more to relieve patients of their money than their suffering.””

Gabrielle Palmer

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

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“Babies who do not sleep ‘through the night’ alone in a cot, as soon as possible after birth, are seen as a ‘problem’.”

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“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.”

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“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.”

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“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12”

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“In some countries, pumping has become the default method of expression, and hand expression has become an afterthought. It would be safer if it…

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“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a baby is…

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time can greatly…

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“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.”

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