Breastfeeding Quote by Vera Farmiga

“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

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.

— Arizona Muse

We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.

— Rashida Tlaib

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

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

— 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

“Where breastfeeding is a normal everyday event women have fewer problems than in societies where it is concealed.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most advice actually contributed to breastfeeding failure and the lucky women were those who escaped the erroneous edicts of the health workers.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.”

— 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

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and…

— Gisele Bundchen