Health Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding in industrialised society is closely bound up with perceptions of sexuality. The very reason it is frowned upon in public is that breasts…

— 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

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A common media image of breastfeeding has been of a hungry mother in a famine rather than of the millions of ordinary women who…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“One sad fact of the 20th century was that the more contact mothers had with health workers, the less they breastfed.5”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this…

— Gabrielle Palmer