From leading midwife and the author of Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth comes this deeply compassionate and comprehensive guide to making breastfeeding a joyful experience for both mother and child.
Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin’s newest book explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding. Inspiring as well as informative, Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding is a powerful and practical guide filled with helpful advice, medical facts and real-life stories that will help mothers understand how and why breastfeeding works and how they can use it to more deeply connect with their children and their own bodies without fear, inhibition, or embarrassment.
'At the start, I did worry that the American angle of this book could be off-putting or confusing, but on finishing it I am pleased to conclude the opposite. It seems to me that this book would give an expectant or new mother confidence. She would learn how breastfeeding works, ideas on what to try and a feeling of closeness to other breastfeeding mothers who tell their stories. More importantly, Ina May's clear, sensible, authoritative yet very kind voice comes through to convince you that, yes, you can do it.' Andrea Peel, MIDIRS
'Ina May Gaskin is an international treasure. Her new guide to breastfeeding is the best thing ever written on the subject. A must-have for all pregnant women interested in the best start for their babies.' Christiane Northrup, M.D., Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin’s newest book explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding. Inspiring as well as informative, Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding is a powerful and practical guide filled with helpful advice, medical facts and real-life stories that will help mothers understand how and why breastfeeding works and how they can use it to more deeply connect with their children and their own bodies without fear, inhibition, or embarrassment.
'At the start, I did worry that the American angle of this book could be off-putting or confusing, but on finishing it I am pleased to conclude the opposite. It seems to me that this book would give an expectant or new mother confidence. She would learn how breastfeeding works, ideas on what to try and a feeling of closeness to other breastfeeding mothers who tell their stories. More importantly, Ina May's clear, sensible, authoritative yet very kind voice comes through to convince you that, yes, you can do it.' Andrea Peel, MIDIRS
'Ina May Gaskin is an international treasure. Her new guide to breastfeeding is the best thing ever written on the subject. A must-have for all pregnant women interested in the best start for their babies.' Christiane Northrup, M.D., Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
