Pain relief Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So…

— Busy Philipps

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

— 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“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

“When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with pain after…

— Ina May Gaskin

“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

“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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— 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

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

— Isla Fisher