Quote by Gabrielle Palmer Download Open image ““Nowadays any well-run maternity unit would not wash babies at birth.”” — Gabrielle Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is cheaper and more efficient to replace labour than to reproduce it sequentially by fulfilling the rights of women workers to maternity leave… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“We have organised our own lives to fit in with machines, much against our own biorhythms (the short night and siesta schedule is better… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“As it became usual for the noble baby to be wet nursed, it became more difficult for a mother to defy custom.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“At home in Nigeria, all a mother had to do for a baby was wash and feed him and, if he was fidgety, strap… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor. — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“current birth rate in Liverpool, the provision of a maternity unit cannot wait. They are calling it a baby boom apparently, and you have… — Nadine Dorries Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Babies who do not sleep ‘through the night’ alone in a cot, as soon as possible after birth, are seen as a ‘problem’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In some countries, pumping has become the default method of expression, and hand expression has become an afterthought. It would be safer if it… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a baby is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It seems likely that if you are told that your vagina is so ill-designed that it must be cut open to perform a normal… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time can greatly… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
