Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they were not…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Observation of animals revealed the fact that infants were rejected if the mother could not nuzzle them within a certain time.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“Babies pay no attention to the clock.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Breastfeeding is often ‘blamed’ for a problem which it is helping to solve.45”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”

— Gabrielle Palmer