Quote by Gabrielle Palmer Download Open image ““Immunologist Lars Hanson views not being breastfed as a state of immunodeficiency.38”” — Gabrielle Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I know that stating these facts can be painful or even enraging to some women who have not breastfed their children, but the continued… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“When women exclusively breastfed after birth they were less likely to die.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Immunisation may not work so well because ‘take up’ (ie antibody response) of vaccines is poorer in a child deprived of the immunological effects… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“I am a physician, and as a consequence I see things most clearly in medical terms. I am arguing that we need an immunization… — Izzeldin Abuelaish Copy Share Image
“Most mothers intended to breastfeed, but the spreading message to restrict feeding made problems more likely.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“That means not having a baby close to their body or in their bed and most definitely not giving a child free access to… — 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
“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In industrialised countries, despite strong evidence, public health messages do not emphasise the risks of not breastfeeding.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“A millionaire’s baby who is not breastfed is less healthy than an exclusively breastfed baby whose mother is in the poorest social group.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the thymus gland (which controls the development of the immune response) of an exclusively breastfed baby is double the size of the thymus… — 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
