Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding

Everything you need to know to make breastfeeding a joyful, natural, and richly fulfilling experience for both you and your baby

Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse your baby in the most fulfilling way possible. Inside you’ll find answers to virtually every question you have on breastfeeding, including topics such as
•the benefits of breastfeeding
•nursing challenges
•pumps and other nursing products
•sleeping arrangements
•nursing and work
•medications
•nursing multiples
•weaning
•sick babies
•nipplephobia, and much more

Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding is filled with helpful advice, medical facts, and real-life stories that will help you understand how and why breastfeeding works and how you can use it to more deeply connect with your baby and your own body. Whether you’re planning to nurse for the first time or are looking for the latest, most up-to-date expert advice available, you couldn’t hope to find a better guide than Ina May.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing Book! A True Must-Read!

By Maria "loving mama" - September 29, 2009

Ina May Gaskin has done it again. Full of information and insight, this page-turner of a book is a must-read. What a great baby shower gift! The book covers everything from the basics of breastfeeding to sleeping arrangements, to nursing twins, to what to do when babies get sick, to weaning, to eradicating nipplephobia and creating a breastfeeding culture. The appendices and resources at the end are also extremely helpful.

Wonderful as expected

By M. Yap - December 15, 2009

Nothing but the best from Ina May Gaskin. This book is just as expected. Lots of very useful practical information and soul supporting words for the mother to be, mother currently nursing, and the birth professional. I am a mother and birth doula and I really enjoy this book. A great gift for the expecting mother in your life would be both books: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth book and Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding.

A slightly different perspective

By Margaret A. Lyman - April 30, 2010

Books about breastfeeding tend to be about the same thing - benefits, techniques, trouble-shooting. While Ina May's covers these, the devotes a short chapter to benefits, another short chapter on technique (though this has slightly different advice than others') and she does cover problems. Within the normal chapters, she does give tips and hints that I haven't seen in other books. The last three chapters also cover cultural issues that other books don't cover (Wet nursing, nipplephobia, and BFing culture). It's going right to the top of my list of books about nursing.