Nursing Your Baby 4e

The best and only book I read about breastfeeding and newborn care. I gained so much reading it while I nursed my newborn. I love this book and recommend it to anyone wanting to breastfeed.

This book allowed me to successfully nurse my baby from day one! It is filled with both information about why nursing is better than formula, as well as with VERY positive advice and ENCOURAGEMENT from two nursing vetrans! It is an interesting and informative read. Contains LOTS of infomation on positioning and how to get started nursing from day one. Also includes sections on nursing the older baby and nursing problems. Makes you feel confident that you CAN nurse your baby! LOVED IT!

This book is a must on any new breastfeeding mom's list of items to buy or receive. I was given this book as a gift. Therefore, I like to return the favor and give it to new moms whom I know are planning to nurse at their baby shower's around the 7 month of pregnancy. I don't believe this book is preachy, it just gives you the facts and stats about breastfeed babies. Easy to read, good directions, and best part for me was reading about the growth spurts relating to supply and demand. Great book!!

I had a copy of the womanly art of breastfeeding and found it to be long on preaching the joys of breastfeeding and short on addressing real concerns and problems. This is the book I dogeared and referred to again and again. It is practical, friendly, and full of useful information I didn't find anywhere else. There is a long bibliography of sources at the back, but you also get the sense that you are being talked to by experienced realistic moms who are sure you can do this - much more helpful when you feel desperate at 2 AM in the first week than another lecture on how wonderful and easy this is supposed to be! I nursed my first baby until he was 18 months old, after a very rocky start - took me three days to get him to nurse at all, and then it took 45 minutes to latch him on properly for a while after that! So I really appreciated any guide that admitted how hard it can be to start breastfeeding and gave a wide variety of practical advice on the real problems. I tossed a lot of popular books that carried on about how breastfeeding is easy and natural and wonderful - it was all that once we got over the hard part, but getting over the hard part was when I needed good advice and real facts! Some of the unusual information included here - baby behavior, innate parent behavior, nursing frequency and patterns, how nursing changes as the baby develops, how to take good care of yourself physically and emotionally. There is a great chapter for working/pumping mothers, and even some advice on how to keep the house tidy enough so it doesn't depress you, with a minimum of effort. Also - getting your milk back when you had to stop nursing for a little while, nursing toddlers, tandem nursing, weaning, pretty much any breastfeeding topic you can think of seems to be covered. The index is not great (you can't find 'thrush' or 'pain' in it, even though there is a section on yeast infections), but I read the whole book and didn't have much trouble finding what I needed in it after that. Several chapters deal with age specific information ('birth to six weeks' etc) which made it easy to look up problems I was having in that particular time period.

... It was read prior to my daughter's birth and constantly referred to while I nursed her.I was no longer unsure of myself due to lack of information and I recommended it to girls who were first time Moms in the hospital when I had my fourth child. My daughter had a baby three years ago with some medical problems and I met Moms and their Moms that were terribly grateful for a reference book so their baby could continue to be nursed and not believe the short interruption would ruin their desire for the baby to be a nursed baby. My daughter needed to relactate and the hospital gave them the machines to make it possible, knowing ,especially babies who have had a rough start need to be nursed even more for their health if the parent is willing to follow the instructions and there is a lot of support for mothers to nurse, knowing what we do today about breastfeeding. For "To Be" Mothers this is a wonderful gift for them to understand and decide if they are going to breastfeed, and to stand up to the bullies who usually have weird reasons why they oppose breast feeding. Instead of being intimidated, you will wonder which category they come from, and you will be a much stronger , confident mother. Mrs Symmington

I purchased several books on breastfeeding and found this one the most comprehensive and informative. A very thorough section on benefits of breastfeeding as well as practical information on how often and how much the baby should be nursing in the first 6 weeks, two to four months etc. There is also information on pumps, going back to work and more. Well written and documented. This was the first book I found that addressed all my issues and concerns with adequate detail.