Mother Food for Breastfeeding Mothers

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Summary: Must Have Book for all Breastfeeding Mothers and Doctors
Review: Finally, we have a well researched, reliable, easy to understand book on this very important but sorely understudied topic: how mothers can create healthy babies and feel better by using the right foods and herbs. This book is a "must read" book for all pregnant and breastfeeding mothers along with their health care providers.
It is clearly evident by the high quality and thorough research that Mrs. Jacobson has spent many, many years researching and synthezing this important and vital imformation. She does an excellent job at presenting this helpful information in an easy to understand manner. I love all of the helpful and yummy recipes sprinkled throughout the book. Mrs. Jacobson has provided information on how to avoid allergies, how to lower a mother's toxic load, how to prevent detoxification while breastfeeding, how to prevent infant colic, postpartum depression, anemia, insulin resistance, food cravings and food addictions along with how to promote and create a healthy milk supply. Very practical information from sources all over the world from many cultures and throughout the millenia is provided on how to create healthy mothers and healthy babies through the food a mother eats. I especially enjoyed reading the sections of how classical medical systems around the world such as Ayurvedic and Middle Eastern countries treat milk supply challenges. But the most valuable information I have been able to recieve from Mother Food, is the abundant information on herbal and lactogenic cooking tips for mothers to increase their milk supply.
As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant for who has worked with breastfeeding mothers for over 25 years, I have been longing to have a book like this to offer as a referral to my patients. All mothers want to provide the best quality milk to their babies and yet thousands and thousands of mothers struggle with their milk supply. Now with Mother Food, health care providers along with pregnant and breastfeeding mothers can obtain reliable, thoroughly researched information on this topic. Thank you, Hilary Jacobson!
With my doctorate in Natural Health, my main focus of research is on foods and herbs that create a healthy milk supply. It is very difficult to find any books that contain this kind of information and as reliable as Mrs. Jacobson's.
I am convinced Mother Food is a book that needs to be on the kitchen and library book shelves of every pregnant and breastfeeding mother as well as every health care provider who counsels and cares for these women. I am thankful to finally have a reliable information source for myself and for my pregnant and breastfeeding clients. Kudos to Mrs. Jacobson for this thorough,well researched but easy to understand book!

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Summary: EXCELLENT resource for pregnancy & nursing
Review: I haven't finished reading the book yet, but I am extremely impressed with the quality of research and the breadth of topics she addresses. The book is also well-written, easy to read, and very interesting! Most of all though it is a really unique resource -- I have not seen any other publication (and I've looked) that thoroughly examines the effect of breastfeeding mothers' diets on their milk and how to improve the quality of your milk and your milk supply. I had already done a lot of reading on nutrition but have a learned a LOT of new information from this book. All of the information is well-documented and clearly explained. HIGHLY recommended!!

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Summary: Don't give up because your breastmilk is low!
Review: Mmany women who experience the natural waxing and waning of breastmilk feel that they must be drying up and needlesly wean their babies too early. Hilary Jacobson shows how foods and herbs can increase milk production through natural cyclic changes as well as those brought about by medication, illness and stress. She doesn't simply present lists of galactogues (breatmilk enhancing foods and herbs) she talks about the energetics of them. For instance nigella seeds, used in the Mideast to enhance breastmilk, may be too warming for regular consumption unless a woman runs cold, and fennel may be a better choice. She discusses ways of determining what allergens may go through the breastmilk and bother the baby- even showing how they can be detected prenatally. Finally she covers foods that mother the mother. This is an excellent resource and I have no trouble recommending it to my patients.