Quote by 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

“In societies where breastfeeding is taken for granted and practised unselfconsciously and openly, women find it easier.21”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Confidence, passed on with a bit of technique by other experienced breastfeeding mothers, is still the key to happy breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her…

— C. JoyBell C

“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In most traditional societies babies and mothers have a period of time to establish breastfeeding. Techniques have been learned unconsciously at an early age…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

— David Suzuki

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

— Gabrielle Palmer