Nursing Your Baby Author:Karen Pryor, Gale Pryor Here - completely updated for the '90s are all the facts and support you need - including extensive, new useful and often surprising information about mothers, fathers, babies, human milk and the joy of breastfeeding. In this warm and practical guide, you'll discover: — - Twenty newly-discovered ways human milk protects your baby from illness — - ... more »How to help your baby learn to nurse
- How to hold your nursing baby for your greatest comfort and your baby's best response
- Common problems of the first weeks and how to overcome them
- How to prevent hospital routines from interfering with successful nursing
- The most up-to-date research on how diet, caffeine, alcohol and drugs affect breastfeeding
- How to return to work as early as six weeks and continue nursing
- How breastfeeding makes life easier for the working mother!
Pack this book when you head to the hospital and keep it by your side for many months - you will find it a wise friend and an always helpful resource. Biologist KAREN PRYOR wrote the path-breaking first edition of NURSING YOUR BABY in 1963. With over one million copies sold, it has been called "the nursing mother's guide and friend" by Benjamin Spock, M.D. and "the bible on breastfeeding" by The New York Times. GALE PRYOR, Karen's daughter, collaborated on this fully updated edition while nursing her own first child and working full-time.« less