Children Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“In any emergency, breastfeeding can and must continue. It saves the lives of infants and young children, and of their mothers through reducing the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“After all, breastfeeding mothers are the most sustainable, local, efficient, life-saving emergency response.”

— 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

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

“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

“A Chicago study of 20,000 infants, all from poor families, all under the supervision of local welfare clinics, revealed that at nine months of…

— 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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The destruction of breastfeeding threatens our ecosystem as much as over-fishing, over-grazing or forest destruction.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Messages about the ‘benefits’ of breastfeeding imply that artificial feeding is normal and safe, and that breastfeeding is a bonus.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The profound mistrust of breastfeeding is complex, but a primitive male fear of the polluting quality of women comes into the argument.”

— Gabrielle Palmer