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Summary: supportive and informative
Review: I found this book to be supportive of your decision to wean whether it be at 5 days or 5 years. It covered the pros and cons of a variety of weaning methods from substitution (to a bottle or cup) distraction, gradual weaning and abrupt weaning. It talked about aversion techniques and just saying no. It recognizes that not all children or mothers are the same and that in different times in history and different cultures weaning is accomplished at different ages and with different methods. The book discusses ramifications of weaning on the child (both long-term and short term) for these techiques and also about the mothers potential feelings and physical changes once she has weaned. Both my husband and I found this book to be very useful as we navigate our way through the weaning of our 2 1/2 year old.If you are looking for a quick and easy answer for how to wean I am not sure that you will find it here or in any book but if you want a very open analysis of a variety of methods then check this one out.
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Summary: The Best Weaning book I have read
Review: I love this book. It gives information on weaning your child if you decide to wean at 2 months or 4 years. What I love the most is it gives the benifits of breastfeeding for each age group as well. I would recomend this book if you were ready to wean or if you are feeling discuraged or burt out and need a reason to continue to breastfed.
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Summary: The Best Weaning book I have read
Review: I love this book. It gives information on weaning your child if you decide to wean at 2 months or 4 years. What I love the most is it gives the benifits of breastfeeding for each age group as well. I would recomend this book if you were ready to wean or if you are feeling discuraged or burt out and need a reason to continue to breastfed.
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Summary: The old bait-and-switch
Review: I picked up this book because I was looking for practical advice about weaning. Hey, with a title like "The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning," that's pretty much what you would expect, right? A "guide to weaning"? Apparently not. Instead I found page after page of guilt-inducing arguments as to why I should nurse, nurse, nurse my daughter until she was well into the preschool years, and that she would somehow be damaged if I did not. Even a full year of breastfeeding is far, far less than your child truly needs and deserves, this book implies. Look, I have impeccable breastfeeding credentials. I wound up exclusively nursing my first daughter for more than a year, until she weaned herself. We didn't even start solids until she wanted to, at 7.5 months. My second daughter is 6.5 months and has never had a drop of formula. I'm even pumping all the milk for her cereal. Like every mother I know, I'm doing the best I can for my kids. But if I make the difficult decision to wean, and decide to buy a book to help me through the process, why should the author try to talk me out of it? Why does she assume I haven't already put a great deal of time and thought into the decision? Perhaps a better title would have been, "If You're Thinking About Weaning." Then she'd probably do a better job of reaching what seems to be her intended audience: long-term breastfeeders who really don't want to wean but are feeling pressured to do so. The rest of us who already know our own minds are likely to find this tract a bit grating. Enough guilt for now, please! This is the kind of stuff that gives the La Leche League a bad name.
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Summary: Pretty useless . . . .
Review: I though that Kathleen Huggin's book on breastfeeding was terrific, but this one is a bomb. Although some readers will probably think that the first chapter on the cultural and histroical aspects of nursing is a yawner, it was actually my favorite part of the book. (It didn't help me with my weaning concern; I just thought it was interesting.) Like other reviewers, I perceived the book to be more a list of reasons that you might be considering weaning (and ideas to help you get around whatever your reason is) and less information on the actual process of weaning. Personally, I am a proponent of breastfeeding past one year, but I figure if you're reading a book on weaning, it should be about weaning.
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Summary: Pretty useless . . . .
Review: I though that Kathleen Huggin's book on breastfeeding was terrific, but this one is a bomb. Although some readers will probably think that the first chapter on the cultural and histroical aspects of nursing is a yawner, it was actually my favorite part of the book. (It didn't help me with my weaning concern; I just thought it was interesting.) Like other reviewers, I perceived the book to be more a list of reasons that you might be considering weaning (and ideas to help you get around whatever your reason is) and less information on the actual process of weaning. Personally, I am a proponent of breastfeeding past one year, but I figure if you're reading a book on weaning, it should be about weaning.
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Summary: Very disappointed!
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. I had hoped to get guidance on how to begin weaning my 1-year-old daughter. Instead, the book provides a detailed history of breastfeeding and recounts the experiences of many breastfeeding mothers. I found the _Nursing Mother's Companion_ to be excellent, and had hoped for the same quality of information from this book. There's a brief mention of techniques, but no guidance on how to use them. I feel more confused after reading this book. It was a waste of money. Don't waste your time or money on this book.
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Summary: Not very practicle advice for weaning
Review: I was very dissappointed by this book, especially after reading Kathleen Huggins first book on breast feeding. Instead of offering the same kind of practicle advice on weaning, it was more arguments against weaning. Most of the book was written in this style..."if you are thinking of weaning because you've got this problem.. then try this instead", and the book then proceeded to para-phrase her first book. There was not much actual advice on weaning, just alot of talk on why society doesn't accept breastfeeding. This working mom found no help in this book, just more arguments for breastfeeding, which If I wasn't already indoctrinated to, this book added its own arguments for, making one feel guilty if you didn't continue feeding for three years. If you want to wean your baby, this isn't the book for you. If on the other hand you wish to continue feeding for longer than a year, this is the book to get for your critics!
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Summary: This book anticipated my ambivalence about weaning.
Review: I'm grateful that I found this book. I was contemplating weaning for the wrong reasons. I really wasn't ready to wean. Now, after reading the book, my batteries are recharged and I'm going to hang in there for a while longer. However, it offers practical advice for when the time comes.
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Summary: The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning
Review: The title should really be, "You are a horrible mother for deciding to wean your child!". Almost all the information in the first 4 chapters was a repeat of the information in the "Nursing Mother's Companion". I found nothing very helpful about this book and I felt like they hardly addressed weaning or the problems with it you may encounter.
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