The Womanly Art of Breast Feeding: The Definative Guide (The Lansinoh Breastfeeding Collection)

i wish i read this before i started breastfeeding. excellent guide - covers everything. helped me get through the difficulties.

I am an OB nurse, so naturally I wanted to breast feed my children after they were born. I had a lot of frustration and pain trying to breast feed my first child, and subsequently stopped after 5 weeks. I was more determinded with my second and third child to be successful. My postpartum nurse (and friend) reccommended this book to me and it was a life saver. I don't neccessarily agree with all of the La Leche League's views, but found it easy to pick out the useful information and skip the "theory" part of it. I ended up breastfeeding my second child for 7 months, and my third for 10 months. Considering my goal was 6 months, I think I did pretty good.