Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies can translate the nutrient needs of their tiny bodies into their suckling behaviours, but medical rules based on mistaken theories have sabotaged their…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were too delicate…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— James Baldwin

“It was frustratingly common that children were no sooner gone from the nest and established in their own homes ... than they began to…

— Helen Simonson

“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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In a 1925 report on infant feeding there was the regretful statement that “some mothers had not even seen a clock and those who…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The word on the street was that I had two options when it came to caring for my future baby: I could either eat,…

— Rachel Held Evans

“The beguiling scope of an infant’s mind! adultly considered to be limited to toys and toes. Psychological”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about…

— Dorothy Cottrell

“On the topic of babies: "I know which end you feed.”

— Ellen DeGeneres