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Summary: Authour's guilt and misinformation very apparent.
Review: It ought to be possible to have a book on how to bottle feed your baby safely and with love...but this book isn't it! Much of the book is spent blasting out breastfeeding, with entirely inaccurate, misleading, and unscientific information. It doesn't tell you how to feed the child in a manner that is anthropologially correct. There is a chapter in Dr. Sears' "The baby book" on how to bottle feed a baby safely. Granted, he prefers breastfeeding, but he has TONS of information for those who (for ANY reason) choose to bottle feed. And he states, over and over, do what is right for YOU. Peggy Robin doesn't try to empower moms to do what they want...she just blast those who choose differently that she did!
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Summary: Compassion and Understanding
Review: This book has been a God send to me. Today's society is so obsessed with breastfeeding that a woman who needs to or chooses to bottlefeed is made to feel like a failure. My first child was born 5 years ago and underwent lung surgery two days after her birth to remove a cyst from her lung. Try relaxing enough to produce milk when your precious baby could die in an operation! This book gave me hope. It gave me valuable information on how to properly clean and prepare bottles for use. It's focus was not to lecture me about which method of feeding was best, just how to be as successful as possible in my chosen method of bottle feeding. I appreciated this book's straight-forwardness. It was the only place I found that had all I needed to know about bottlefeeding in it. I felt empowered after reading this book. I would now be able to be the best bottle feeding Mom ever. Thank you Peggy Robin for making a positive difference in my family's life.
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Summary: Book is misleading and might scare of mothers who DO nurse!
Review: I am not a mother but I have lived with my sister for 12 years and have watched her nurse all 5 of her children and she is expecting a 6th. With the exception of one child who she had to stop nursing before she was ready due to being hospitalized, she has nursed them all successfully. She also works for La Leche Leauge in our area. I can tell you from listening to her counsel other mothers on the phone, she has NEVER ONCE criticized a mother because she is having problems. She is always very patient and offers several suggestions. She never criticizes a mother in her group when they choose to breastfeed. Obviously each group is different in how they feel.While SOME of the reasons that she has listed for choosing bottlefeeding are valid, such as a mother who has AIDS, there are many that I read that just to me are stupid or lazy excuses to choose the bottle. For instance, choosing to bottlefeed a second child "because you didn't nurse your first and you don't want them to be jealous!". Please! Your first child is going to be jealous of the new baby regardless of whether you bottlefeed or not!! Many of the reasons listed could be helped with GOOD medical adivce. And many NICU's encourage you to expres milk for your preemie. To say that "The Benefits of Breastfeeding have been overdramatized" is false. There are MANY reports out that will tell how and why breastmilk is better then formula. No, a child won't die if you choose not to breastfeed, but bottlefeeding is not all safe either. Babies have gotten ill while on bottles because the formula is made either too strong or not strong enough and many other reasons. THe author needs to do alot more research before she critcizes Breatmilk so much and NOT all Breastfeeding advocates are nazis. I know more mothers who get critized because they nurse for too long and in public then do bottlefed mothers.
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