Failure Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— 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

“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

“There are horror stories of health staff snapping at women, pushing the baby on to the breast, then taking her off and distributing the…

— 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

“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer