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Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding |  | Author: Ina May Gaskin
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 20795
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0553384295
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.33
EAN: 9780553384291
ASIN: 0553384295
Publication Date: September 29, 2009
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Product Description
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.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
 Excellent book for home birthers, but a bit unrealistic for some August 7, 2010
PJ
I love this book and I love Ina May, the Godmother of modern midwifery. This book contains lots of positive, empowering home birth stories. Ina May explains why it's best to avoid medical interventions, and how a woman's body can better open up. It's definitely not a book for those who would choose to birth in a hospital, however. And quite frankly I think Ina May takes it a wee bit far how anti-hospital she is. The only reason I'm giving this four rather than five stars is that it does nothing at all to prepare a home-birthing woman for the possibility that she may have to go to hospital after all. Although this rarely happens in Ina May's practice, I think she is truly like a magical goddess of birth, and the reality for most midwives and women is not always like that. I was anti-hospital birth myself and read this book with such passion and zeal, assured home birth was what I wanted. Unfortunately, our home birth did not go as we would've liked, and I absolutely had to transfer to hospital. After trying for a long time at a very pro-natural birth hospital to do things the normal way, I needed a cesarean birth in the end. I truly believe that all the pro-home birth books I read had conditioned me to expect this amazing beautiful home birth. I guess the point of those books is to empower women to know they can do it that way. But sadly, it just doesn't always work out the way we want, and there is a level at which it's out of our hands how our babies are born. And I was left pretty traumatized, not only by my very difficult birth, but by the crushing disappointment that came from having to let go of my visions of a natural home birth. I suppose these kinds of books, and this one in particular, are not about anything other than empowering women to be able to birth naturally and at home, so maybe a section on how to have a "good" hospital or cesarean birth should the home birth not work out wouldn't fit. I only wish someone with Ina May's perspective ~that natural home birth is the best option~ would help prepare us women, in the most positive non-fear inducing way possible, for the reality that it might not happen that way. Ina May makes it look like it is someone's fault if it doesn't work out naturally in the end. It isn't always. Some babies are just not meant to be born that way.
Despite all of this, which is only my particular story, I still adore Ina May and think she's brilliant and a hero of all women in the world today. I still think every pregnant woman should read this book, it could change the way we birth and have such a positive effect on the world. Overall I highly recommend it.
 Seems to be good July 7, 2010
Nucknab
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book seems to be good so far as we really haven't had tue chance to use it.
Not as good as I was expecting June 10, 2010
B. Havin' (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely LOVED Ina May's Guide to Childbirth and will probably always treasure that book and its role in my daughter's birth. The Guide to Breastfeeding was alright. I agree with her advocacy for breastfeeding, but I didn't think it was nearly as informative as the Childbirth book. In my estimation, she's an authority on Childbirth and an educated advocate on breastfeeding. I felt like the publisher had her add some extra fluff in order for the book to be similar in size to her Childbirth book. The book is very broad (and could be titled "Ina May's Guide to having a Newborn") and I would have liked more information on the returning to work/pumping chapter. I wouldn't rely on this book as heavily as I would her childbirth book.
 great resource for moms who want to breastfeed! May 17, 2010
twinkle star (TN, USA)
I loved Ina May's wisdom and guidance in this wonderful book. I am due with my first child in September and I know I will have this book by my side as I embark on breastfeeding. I especially enjoyed the personal stories and detailed pictures/descriptions on different breast feeding holds. She also has an entire chapter devoted to troubleshooting breasfeeding problems and many natural remedies for things like thrush and sore nipples.
I also think it's important to banish the negative images of women who choose to breastfeed, especially in public. Ina May talks about "nipplephobia" and how the US does not have enough protection for breastfeeding moms.
I am SO glad I read this book. and I am sure you will be too. Thank you Ina May!!!!
A Factually Accurate Breastfeeding Book April 30, 2010
M. Price
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a labor, delivery and postpartum RN and mother of a 10 month old. I loved this book. It was factually accurate and provided information I have not found in other breastfeeding resources. In particular, I appreciated her realistic view of women returning to work and continuing to breastfeed. She had excellent information about the use of a breastpump and what to expect while using one. I also liked her more "moderate" view on breastfeeding unlike the the La Leche League's book. It was nice to hear a more moderate voice in the world of breastfeeding.
This book was also quite educational and discussed some rather fascinating accounts of lactation, such as women who were able to lactate post-menopausal and prior to pregnancy. I found this quite interesting and of value to discuss in a culture that seems to have the belief that lactation is difficult or unimportant.
The only section I was somewhat ambivalent about was her discussion about "nipple phobia." While I do agree that our culture is "phobic" of seeing a woman's nipples, I'm not sure that the label adds value to the destruction of this state in our culture. Other than that, this book was the best breastfeeding resource I have ever read.
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