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Forget stressful routines, painful breasts and problems with milk supply. This straightforward guide shows you how to follow your baby's lead so you can enjoy relaxed and pain-free breastfeeding.
With practical advice on interpreting your baby's needs, Baby-led Breastfeeding explains in simple terms how breastfeeding works and why staying in tune with your baby is the key to effortless feeding. Breastfeeding is easy when you follow your baby's natural instincts.
£12.00
UK
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delivery outside the UK.
Signed copies - limited
number
Order below to
add a donation to Baby Milk Action of £10 to your order and
we will send you a copy signed by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett, while stocks last.
£22.00
UK postage and packing
included. £6.00 will be added
for delivery outside the UK.
Saggy Boobs and other Breastfeeding Myths
by
Valerie Finigan. Embroidered illustration by Lou Gardiner
‘Clever, beautiful, thoughtful , vibrant and artistic, this delightful book is a colourful guide debunking common breastfeeding myths’.
The Mother Magazine.
£7.00
UK
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Breastfeeding Older Children
by
Ann Sinnott.
Breastfeeding is a globally recognized imperative for the preservation of infant health, and governments around the world have introduced breastfeeding promotion measures. While initiation rates have improved, duration rates at a few weeks or months after birth still lag behind the World Health Organization’s recommendation that breastfeeding - for all children, in both developed and developing worlds - should continue for at least two years.
Behind the figures, there is however an inverse reality. Today, increasing numbers of women in the industrialized world challenge social convention and breastfeed their children well beyond WHO guidelines.
How widespread is this surprising, many would say shocking, phenomenon?
Is it Nature’s way or an unhealthy practice?
Do mothers prolong breastfeeding for their own pleasure?
Is it, as some say, a form of sexual abuse?
Do overly controlling women coerce children into continuing because they wish their children to remain dependent, or are they meeting an innate child need?
Does long-term breastfeeding impact negatively on child physical and emotional health, or does it have a positive effect?
Do mothers pay a price?
How does the practice affect the family, and the couple relationship?
Are breasts intended for infant feeding or for sexual pleasure?
How and when did early weaning become established practice in the western world?
Is sustained breastfeeding a reversion to a pre-feminist state, or is it a truly feminist issue?
Drawing on child development theories and neuroscience research, archaeological findings and anthropological opinion, this book, explores the myths and reality surrounding this taboo practice to answer these and many other questions. In extracts from questionnaires, we also hear directly from mothers, fathers and the children themselves. Thought-provoking and challenging, this well-researched but thoroughly accessible book will appeal to all concerned with infant feeding and child health, as well as those with an interest in prehistory and the origins of western culture.
£19.00
UK
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Food of Love
by
Kate Evans.
A book full of reassuring and practical advice for mothers, particularly those experiencing problems with breastfeeding.
Sheila Kitzinger: ‘Vibrant, exciting, funny – and based on up-to-date research’.
Sue Gerhardt, author of Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain. ‘I love your book! It looks very well-written and researched - and great drawings too’
£14.50
UK
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Baby-led
Weaning
by
Gill Rapley and
Tracey Murkett.
A guide
that shows, with time and space, babies learn to feed themselves with
healthy family foods (alongside breastfeeding). No need for
spoonfeeding commercial baby foods long before they are ready. Geared to
industrialised countries.
£13.00
UK
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Fit
to Bust
by
Alison Blenkinsop.
"What
do you get when you combine musical talent with lactation? Fit to Bust
~ a gloriously joyful celebration of the breastfeeding life. This is
truly a unique contribution to lactation literature, which will be
enjoyed by the whole family."
Veronika
Robinson, Editor, The Mother magazine
Alison
Blenkinsop is a long-time supporter of Baby Milk Action and a lactation
consultant.
She
has produced this book independently of Baby Milk Action to help
promote breastfeeding and to help raise funds for our work.
£12.00
UK
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Breastfeeding
Made Simple
Kathleen
Kendall-Tackett and Nancy Mohrbacher
Second edition
337
pages
2010.
From
the Breastfeeding Made Simple website:
"Some mothers find that breastfeeding is more challenging than they
expected—and anything but simple. In Breastfeeding Made
Simple, we describe the Seven Natural Laws of Breastfeeding. These are
laws you can use to get breastfeeding off to a good start and avoid
common challenges. If you are having difficulties, these laws can help
you get back on track. We’ve also provided some additional
resources on this site to help you on your way. Our best wishes in your
mothering and breastfeeding adventures! Nancy and Kathy."
£19.00
UK
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Barbara:
"This book is worth reading and is a refreshing addition to any
breastfeeding mother's or helper's library. It illustrates the fact
that there is ‘a biological framework independent of
culture’ that governs the link between breastfeeding and
mammalian behaviour. The authors emphasise that breastfeeding must be
seen as an emotional relationship, rather than as a step-by-step system
of box-ticking. Babies are in fact 'hardwired' to breastfeed."
So that’s
what they’re for! The Definitive Breastfeeding Guide
Janet
Tamaro
Popular
US guide: “A practical, light-hearted, and
humorous look at breastfeeding… that’s full of
factual information and down-to-earth answers to the universal
questions all breastfeeding mothers have.”
– La Leche League
Published
2005 (3rd edition)
337
pages
£12.00
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Bestfeeding:
How to Breastfeed
Your Baby
Mary
Renfrew
Chloe Fisher
Suzanne Arms
Latest
edition of the best-selling guide for mother and healthworkers.
Published
2004 (revised).
296
pages
£18.00
UK
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Fresh
Milk: The Secret Life of
Breasts
A
unique collection of personal stories. Eye-opening, fun, provocative
and poignant.
Published
2003.
£13.00
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Comment:
"I adored this book, really funny, really interesting, and a totally
unique and intimate insight into all sorts of things that any
breastfeeding mother secretly thinks, but might not say out loud!
Refreshing, and makes you feel like part of a very special sisterhood -
buy it now and recommend it to all your breastfeeding friends."
Breastfeeding
In Hospital: Mothers, Midwives and the Production Line - out of stock
By
Fiona Dykes
Published
2006
212
pages
"Breast
is Best" is today's prevailing mantra. However, women - particularly
first-time mothers - frequently feel unsupported when they come to feed
their baby. This new experience often takes place in the impersonal and
medicalised surroundings of a hospital maternity ward where women are
'seen to' by overworked midwives.
Using
a UK-based ethnographic study and interview material, this book
provides a new, radical and critical perspective on the ways in which
women experience breastfeeding in hospitals. It highlights that, in
spite of heavy promotion of breastfeeding, there is often a lack of
support for women who begin to breastfeed in hospitals.
The
book thus challenges the current system of postnatal care which results
in neither service user nor provider feeling satisfied. Highly relevant
to health professional and breastfeeding supporters as well as to
students in health and social care, medical anthropology and medical
sociology as it explores practice issues while contextualising them
within a broad social, political and economic context.
£22.00
UK
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Breast
is Best
Dr
Penny Stanway
Fully
revised & updated edition of this indispensable guide.
Packed with new facts and down to earth tips.
2005.
420
pages
£12.00
UK
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What
Mothers Do: Especially When It Looks Like Nothing
Naomi
Stadlen
Empowering
and revolutionary new exploration of motherhood.
2004.
256
pages
£11.00
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