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Don't get me started on how they talk about hospitals in comparison to the ever-idyllic home birth. And, by the way, seriously NO OFFENSE if you chose a home birth; It's the attitude of the book and the authors I have an issue with, not the setting of your labor & delivery. ("Hospital routines, feeling like a patient, bright lights, scary equipment, unaccustomed smells - they all make us feel uneasy and make labor more difficult.") ...Hmm, do you have any actual proof for that last statement? The LLLGB Panel of Professional Advisors (PPA) are a body of experts in breastfeeding and birth research and practice. They advise our Professional Liaison Department and support us with medical queries and challenges. Now in its 8th edition, our bestselling book The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding builds on our philosophy.
Yes, I know this is a book advocating breastfeeding, but LLL, despite what they weakly disclaim in the beginning of the book, takes a pretty hardline "my way or the highway" approach to breastfeeding that is a huge turn-off. If anything, I think this book would make women feel inferior if they are not able to nurse their baby for whatever reason.Guidance on knowing if your baby is getting enough milk, increasing your supply, sleep, day care, solids, colic, food allergies, medications, and more. If your friend tells you how she 'loved her epidural,' ask her how her first month of motherhood went." Wow lady, every new mother I've ever asked said the first month was terrible regardless of epidural or not, so let's not encourage all our readers to be as b*tchily morally superior as you, OK? guidance on breast health issues, weight gain, day care, colic, postpartum depression, food allergies, and medications I'm as pro-breastfeeding as the next woman, but the author of this book seems to delight in making up her own facts. No, your baby will not become an emotionally stunted, developmentally disabled diabetic if you find yourself in a situation where you have to use formula. No, your baby will not be ruined forever if you require interventions during childbirth. (I have to say, never before have I been told I need to worry about not bonding with my baby if she should happen to glance at someone else other than me immediately after she's born.) And no, breastfeeding will not be as easy as breathing if you can just quit thinking about your own health and safety long enough to have the perfect, all-natural childbirth.
Real-parent wisdom on breastfeeding comfortably – from avoiding soreness to simply enjoying the connection with your baby. One way breast feeding protects your newborn from illnesses is the immune molecules, called antibodies, that are present in human milk. Antibodies are made by your body’s immune system and are very specific molecules that help you fight each illness. When babies are born, their immune systems are very immature and they have less ability to fight illness-causing germs. Through your breast milk, you give your baby immunities to illnesses to which you are immune and also those to which you have been exposed. Sept 27: I'm done! Wow. Definitely more thorough than the seventh edition. Lots of great new stuff.It is laid out in logical sections to help make this either a book you read cover to cover, or one you Chapters 5 to 11 are divided by stages of development from newborn to toddler. It was interesting to learn that during the time your supply is being regulated in the first two or three weeks, you hit the point where you're making more milk than you will for the rest of your breastfeeding relationship. If you are scheduling or trying to get your baby to STTN at that stage, you might be inadvertently causing low supply because your body will think that your maximum need is low. Sure, growth spurts and herbs can cause an increase in production, but it won't be quite at the level you had in the beginning. It's amazing how important those first few weeks are.
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