Breastfeeding Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Health officials from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Israel have all issued warnings against the use of soya-based artificial milks for babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

— Josh Billings

“As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.”

— Joseph Gies

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

— Anonymous

Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with a fear of old age.…

— Andre Mertens

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

— Francois Rabelais

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

— Harriet Martineau

“An exclusively breastfed child can die, just as an artificially fed child can survive, because of a range of risk factors, but this does…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastmilk substitutes can be useful, life-saving products, just as artificial insulin can save the lives of diabetics, but no honest doctor could advocate the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastmilk is designed for rapid digestion and frequent feeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“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

“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

“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