Synopses & Reviews
The authors of Baby-Led Weaning are back to help parents discover how easy breastfeeding can be when you follow your baby’s natural instincts.
Forget stressful schedules, painful latching, and worries over milk supply. In the same sensible and sensitive voice that has made baby-led weaning a growing sensation, authors Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett explain how to:
• get breastfeeding up and running in the first few weeks
• hold your baby so that he can feed effectively
• express and store milk efficiently
• avoid or remedy sore nipples, mastitis, and other problems
• wean at a natural pace.
Staying in tune with your baby is the key to effortless feeding. Baby-Led Breastfeeding gives you the tools to create a happy and fulfilling breastfeeding experience for mother and baby.
Review
"Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett have done it again. They have produced another excellent book that puts babies in charge of how much they eat. Babies are competent! Mothers don't have to be totally in charge of feeding. What an empowering message for new moms! Rapley and Murkett provide a great overview of breastfeeding, incorporating the latest research. This organized, easy-to-use guide will get you started. And if you encounter problems, the book offers many possible solutions. But Rapley and Murkett's most important message is that babies know how to do this."
--Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC, FAPA, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Lactation and coauthor of Breastfeeding Made Simple, 2nd Edition
"Baby-Led Breastfeeding will help ensure a smooth start to breastfeeding and, more importantly, encourage mothers to continue."
--Victoria McEvoy, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
"Replete with practical insights, ingenious explanations, and oodles of good sense, this gem of a book will be indispensable to new parents."
--Cindy Turner-Maffei, Former National Coordinator of Baby-Friendly USA Initiative
"Baby-Led Breastfeeding is the much-needed, thorough precursor to Baby-Led Weaning. Baby-Led Breastfeeding is a complete, stand-alone resource, offering mothers research-based, accessible information on a wide range of breastfeeding-related topics. Rapley and Murkett respectfully educate, affirm, and encourage mothers to trust their own instincts, and their baby's instincts as well. This is truly the only breastfeeding book you need!"
--Megan Massaro, coauthor of The Other Baby Book: A Natural Approach to Baby's First Year
Synopsis
Say goodbye to stressful schedules, painful latching, and worriesover milk supply. In the same sensible and sensitive voice thathas made baby-led weaning a growing sensation, authors GillRapley and Tracey Murkett show how easy nursing can be when you letyour baby lead the way. This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide willhelp you understand your baby s unique, natural pattern and develop atrusting and healthy breastfeeding relationship. With the help of personalanecdotes and color photos from real moms, Rapley and Murkettexplain how to:
Get breastfeeding up and running in the first few weeks
Hold your baby so that he can feed effectively
Express and store milk efficiently
Avoid or remedy sore nipples, mastitis, and other problems
Wean at a natural pace
Breastfeeding shouldn t be a struggle, and, if you stay in tune withyour baby, it can be effortless. Baby-Led Breastfeeding will give youthe tools to create a happy and fulfilling breastfeeding experience foryou and your baby.
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Synopsis
Say goodbye to stressful schedules, painful latching, and worries
Synopsis
Say goodbye to stressful schedules, painful latching, and worries
About the Author
Gill Rapley, the pioneering champion of baby-led weaning, worked as a public health nurse for over twenty years and has also been a midwife, lactation consultant, and voluntary breastfeeding counselor. She is currently pursuing a PhD in infant feeding.Tracey Murkett is a voluntary mother-to-mother breastfeeding helper and coauthor with Gill Rapley of Baby-Led Weaning and The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook.