Recommended Books on Feeding Your Newborn Baby

Bestfeeding : Getting Breastfeeding Right for You: An Illustrated Guide
by Mary Renfrew, Chloe Fisher (Contributor), Suzanne Arms (Contributor)

For over a decade, this classic book has served as the resource for mothers and midwives committed to breastfeeding. Through thoughtfully written text and detailed illustration, the authors cover issues ranging from how to establish breastfeeding in the early days of a child's life to how to resolve problems that may arise during breastfeeding.

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Breastfeeding: A Mother's Gift
by Pamela K. Wiggins, Katherine A. Dettwyler

Wiggins, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and teacher of breastfeeding classes for over 20 years, has written a mother-friendly, easy-to-read guide to breastfeeding. It strongly urges women to breastfeed and presents information that will contribute to successful breastfeeding, including current recommendations on techniques as well as the problems a nursing mother may encounter. This is an excellent resource for mothers and mothers-to-be as well as for healthcare professionals. It is nicely indexed and referenced; an appendix, written by a pharmacologist, deals with medication use during breastfeeding. While not as comprehensive as the 480-page classic issued by La Leche League, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (NAL Dutton, 1997. rev. ed.), this book is warmly recommended for individual purchase and for public and health sciences collections because of its style, content, and message.

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Amy Spangler's Breastfeeding : A Parent's Guide
by Amy Spangler

Friendly,personal,and honest, BREASTFEEDING A Parent's Guide separates the facts from the myths about breastfeeding. It answers the questions most often asked about breastfeeding and deals honestly and directly with the advantages as well as the concerns. Detailed drawings, clear instrustions and helpful advice make this the book breastfeeding parents will refer to over and over again. It is the perfect book for today's parents...parents who wonder if breastfeeding will work in their busy lives.

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Nursing Mother, Working Mother : The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby After You Return to Work
by Gale Pryor

Going back to work after having a baby? You don't have to wean your little one. In Nursing Mother, Working Mother: The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby After You Return to Work, Gale Pryor has written a nuts-and-bolts guide for nursing and working at the same time. Pryor breast-fed each of her two children while working full-time outside the home, and her experience and voice of reassurance informs this book. She makes a strong case for breast-feeding: not only is it good for your baby, but many working women find that it is the easiest way to care for their child, and for themselves. Early chapters cover breast-feeding basics. Later chapters focus on preparing to go back to work, instructions on pumping (equipment and positioning), how to manage life at home and at work, and how to cope if you "fall apart" when your baby is six months old (common among new mothers who work outside the home). The book describes a typical day of pumping and nursing for babies of various ages, how to combine nursing and formula feeding, and how to stop leaking breasts (discreetly press on your nipples with the back of your forearms or with your elbows). Appendices include a list of resources for nursing, working mothers and a sample proposal for pumping space.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition : Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life
by William H. Dietz (Editor), Loraine Stern (Editor), American Academy of ped, Lorain Stern (Editor)

In American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Nutrition, nutritionist William H. Dietz and pediatrician Loraine Stern have written an authoritative, comprehensive resource for parents concerned about their children's nutrition. The book is subtitled Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life, and it provides useful tips for concerned parents on how to feed their children well without turning into the food police. Subjects covered include instructions for breast and bottle feeding, introducing semi-solids and solids, toddler meals and resistance, school lunches, adolescent/parent food struggles, eating disorders, the relationship between smoking and weight distribution, and, of course, the recommended Food Guide Pyramid. The chapter on eating and food problems, titled "Spitting Up, Gagging, Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Constipation," may not make for great reading on a sensitive stomach, yet it provides a great resource for parents with an ailing child. Another chapter, titled "What Do I Do About Outside Influences?" discusses parental influence, peer pressure, television, and how they may affect your child's relationship with food. Additional subjects include food safety, alternative diets, and allergies.

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Feed Your Child Right from Birth Through Teens : A Pediatrician's Notes on Nutrition, Easy-To-Prepare Recipes, and Healthy Snacks
by Albert C. MD Goldberg

Feed Your Child Right from Birth offers tasty and nutritious meals that will make everyone happy.

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