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Publications

Books about breastfeeding and infant care


Food of Love

by Kate Evans.

A book full of reassuring and practical advice for mothers, particularly those experiencing problems with breastfeeding.


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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

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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

by Sue Gerhardt.

"Why Love Matters is hugely important. It should be mandatory reading for all parents, teachers and politicians." - The Guardian.

"Sue Gerhardt's choice of title reflects the loving attention to detail that is the essence of this book... excellently researched and well-written book which deserves to be widely read by practitioners, researchers and parents." - Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

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£12.00

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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.


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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


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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.

SPECIAL OFFER: The first 25 orders for this book combined with our 2009 breastfeeding calendar will be sent a set of our humorous breastfeeding postcards absolutely free. Simply add the calendar to your order and you will be sent the cards if you ordered while this message was being displayed.

£12.00

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Breastfeeding Made Simple

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Nancy Mohrbacher

Presented at the LCGB conference 2008.

 

276 pages

2005.


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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."

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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."

Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture: Controversies and Challenges - out of stock

Edited by Victoria Hall Moran and Fiona Dykes (other contributors include Susan Battersby, Sally Inch, Mavis Kirkham, Gill Rapley, Magda Sachs and Mary Smale).

Current Issues in Midwifery series.

Published 2006

312 pages


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Promoting and supporting optimal maternal and infant nutrition is a major international health issue across the globe. Traditionally, maternal and infant nutrition was viewed as the biochemical transfer of nutrients from mother to child. While this biochemical understanding is crucial, there is a growing need to understand and address the political, socio-cultural and economic influences upon eating, feeding and nutrition. It is being increasingly recognised that despite the international agenda, maternal eating and infant feeding practices relate substantially to local cultural norms and constraints. This book utilises a socio-biological perspective; that is, a perspective that recognises complex interactions between political, socio-cultural and biological factors in food and health. It illuminates some of the many challenges and considerable controversies inherent in the field.

£38.00

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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


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Breastfeeding for everywoman

University of Bristol Early Childhood Development Unit 2004. 6th edition.

A guide for mothers and breastfeeding advisers in an easy-to-read format.


Breastfeeding for everywoman

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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

Bestfeeding

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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.

Fresh milk

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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

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"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

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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

Breast is Best

£12.00

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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

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