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Summary: Essential for mother's who are committed to breastfeeding
Review: This book has the most practical, concrete and easily understood information of any book I have read on nursing. There is a section on how to calulate how much breastmilk your baby is eating (a constant worry for new mothers!) and then determine if your baby REALLY needs supplements and then how to determine HOW MUCH your baby needs. It takes away all the guess work and worry and gives you something you can do to solve problems.
Very reassuring.
This goes on my list to all expectant mothers, along with Nursing Mother Working Mother by Gayle Pryor and The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.
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Summary: breast feeding isn't easy
Review: This book is a must have for any first time mom who wants to nurse her baby. It saved me when I thought breast feeding just wouldn't work.
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Summary: Questions Answered
Review: This book is an excellent resource for nursing mothers. From positioning to remedies for common breastfeeding ailments, Kathleen Huggins makes you realize you aren't alone out there! She dispells many common myths and misconceptions about breastfeeding with excellent advice to boot. This book gave me great confidence in my natural ability to nurse my baby successfully.
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Summary: Great practical solutions for solving nursing problems
Review: I was given this book before my son was born and it turned out to be a lifesaver for us! I had almost every problem in the book (flat nipples, late milk onset, low milk supply, breast infection and a brief seperation at 6 weeks because I needed surgery). With the practical step-by-step advice in this book, I was able to successfully establish a healthy nursing relationship with my son. I also like the fact that it's not as dogmatic as "The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding". We had to use a few supplemental bottles in the early weeks. This book taught me how to get my milk supply up so we could discontinue supplementing, while reassuring me that these supplements wouldn't kill him. He's been on breatmilk alone for 5 1/2 months! Now that he's 6 months and we're introducing solids, I am going back to it for advice on how to combine solids and nursing. I would recommend this book to any pregnant or nursing mom I know. Read the first couple sections and take it to the hospital with you!
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Summary: a terrific resource for nursing mothers
Review: This book is loaded with valuable information. Chapters deal with preparing your breasts before the baby is born, dealing with nursing problems including travel, and nursing under a variety of special conditions (a mother with diabetes, premature infants, multiple children, an adopted baby, etc.). The author, a registered nurse, has organized the book roughly chronologically, categorizing the first two months as a learning period, months two through six as a reward period, and concluding with nursing the older infant and toddler. Appendices are particularly informative. The first gives contact information for many resources, from support and education to nursing bras, pump rental and various accoutrements such as breast shields and lanolin. The second gives charts for determining the amount of milk infants of varying weights need. Appendix three, with its own index, is a gold mine -- a comprehensive overview of all manner of drugs, over-the-counter as well as prescription, with information concerning their safe use (or non-use) while nursing an infant. There is also a bibliography if you'd like to look into certain issues more carefully, and an index which is, as others have stated, rather inadequate. Don't let a poor index stop you from buying this extremely useful resource, though. If you intend to breastfeed, you will refer to this wonderful book many times -- and you will almost certainly find the answer you are looking for.
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Summary: One of the best books on breastfeeding out there...
Review: After a rocky start, I was able to successfully breastfeed my first child for almost three years. I used only two books as a reference, this one and The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. It is a great trouble-shooting reference when the going is tough. I now buy these two books as shower gifts or recommend them as 'must-haves' to every new breastfeeding mother I meet. I now am breastfeeding my second child, and made sure that I had the newest edition at my fingertips. Am going to buy it again today to give to a pg family member. No, it won't have all the answers to all of your questions (there is no perfect book out there cuz I've looked!), however, between those two books, you'll get what you need for the basics.
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Summary: Excellent guide for nursing mothers
Review: This book exceeded my expectations. This is a complete guide for breastfeeding, and it helped me to take care of my baby and of myself too. I recomend it to mothers who really want to breastfeed theirs babies, wich is a difficult thing to do, sometimes. I could not breastfeed my fisrt son because of the lack of knowledge about this matter, and when I was pregnant of my daughter three years later I said to myself that I should not spend so much money and time with formulas, and when she was born I could feel the happiness of being so close to her with breastfeeding, with the help of this book. Enjoy it!
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Summary: Breastfeeding Resource prior to Baby
Review: My baby is not here yet but I did find information that I actually had not read about or heard in a class in the book. It is also arranged so that when baby does get here and I have a problem, I can just look it up and troubleshoot that particular problem only with easy book access.
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Summary: The one I keep coming back to
Review: I got this book the first time I was pregnant and it saw me through a difficult first two months and a successful two-year breastfeeding relationship. When I was pregnant the second time around I bought two other books (Sears and Newman)to see if they offered more help and more information. Sears is very supportive of breastfeeding generally (breastfeeding eight babies--wow!) and Newman is a bracing advocate of breastfeeding in the face of bottle feeding, but for practical things I keep rereading Huggins, even though I know what it says by heart. It's somehow very comforting to have a long list of 14 things you can *do* if your nipples hurt or if you think something you eat is bothering the baby. Or be able to look up whether you can take cough medicine with dextromethorphan while breastfeeding (and many other less common drugs). That having been said, the best advice I can give you if you're pregnant for the first time is to find a lactation consultant to help you get started--think about it beforehand and don't hesitate to call on her if you need to. None of these books deals with the reality that early breastfeeding can be excruciatingly hard and exhausting and you need a warm, supportive helper. Both times for me it was the hands-on help of one of these wonderful professionals that got me over the tough spots--no book will be as helpful when you're ready to run around the house screaming ready to give up.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE FOR BREAST FEEDING WOMEN
Review: I love this book. It is so educational, and in functional terms that I can use and understand. It has picture examples, and lots of hands on information. This is the only book you will need to successfully breast feed your baby.
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