Giving birth Quote by Gabrielle Palmer Download Open image ““The bonding effects of suckling can be stronger than giving birth.”” — Gabrielle Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving birth
“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 Copy Share Image
“Early suckling helps expel any fragments of placenta and stems post-natal bleeding; it also prevents engorgement, mastitis and abscesses which could lead to infection,… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong. My elder daughter says that when you mow down weeds with a tractor,… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“When our birthing culture comes to its senses and follows the evidence of what works best, then many breastfeeding difficulties will melt away.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that ‘nipple sucking’ is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother’s nipples as… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“You creating ones, you higher men! Whoever has to give birth is sick; whoever has given birth, however, is unclean. Ask women: one gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What could be more intimate, more placental? This steamy, candlelit cradle she'd made use, twins tied in the womb. Grooming each other, letting the soil and torment that is the world's indifference disappear down the drain. Here, at last, was my partner. Tucked behind the wet walls of our sanctum. Here we could gleam anew with infant vigor, could refuel… — Nick Fowler Copy Share
“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
I don't think my relationship with the idea of womanhood is that attached to giving birth... like, I'm fully aware that I'll never give… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“When Jesus finished teaching in a synagogue one day, a woman called out from the audience, 'God bless your mother—the womb from which you… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any woman. And… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
What is your future? Shortly after giving birth to you if your parents kicked you out of the house is | now you seem… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Giving birth to my daughter was certainly memorable, like a slap in the face. I arrived at the hospital in total denial, having not… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
“...it's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most,… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
