The Complete Book of Breastfeeding is a recognized classic in its field. Now it's been completely revised and updated in a new fourth editionnon-doctrinaire, informative, and friendly, it is the most accessible and authoritative book, as much required reading for expecting and new mothers as a pregnancy guide and baby name book.
All healthy mothers should consider breastfeeding for the first year of a baby’s life, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and this is the book that will help women give their babies the healthiest start possible. Written by Sally Wendkos Olds and a new co-author, Laura Marks, M.D., The Complete Book of Breastfeeding, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to breastfeedinghow to get ready before the baby arrives; how to involve fathers and siblings; and the best diet and foods for mom. There are sections on dealing with problems at the hospital; extensive information on exclusive pumping (EPing); the best systems for giving supplementary bottles to a breastfed baby; the safest sleep scenarios for babies; breastfeeding in public, including laws affecting breastfeeding mothers. New data about preterm infants is presented, and special situationsmultiples, breast cancer, overweight and large-breasted women, breast surgery, tattoos and piercingsare also discussed in detail. An expanded chapter on weaning features sections on breastfeeding past infancy. Also new is an appendix of online resources.
The Complete Book of Breastfeeding is a recognized classic in its field. Now it's been completely revised and updated in a new fourth editionnon-doctrinaire, informative, and friendly, it is the most accessible and authoritative book, as much required reading for expecting and new mothers as a pregnancy guide and baby name book.
All healthy mothers should consider breastfeeding for the first year of a baby’s life, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and this is the book that will help women give their babies the healthiest start possible. Written by Sally Wendkos Olds and a new co-author, Laura Marks, M.D., The Complete Book of Breastfeeding, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to breastfeedinghow to get ready before the baby arrives; how to involve fathers and siblings; and the best diet and foods for mom. There are sections on dealing with problems at the hospital; extensive information on exclusive pumping (EPing); the best systems for giving supplementary bottles to a breastfed baby; the safest sleep scenarios for babies; breastfeeding in public, including laws affecting breastfeeding mothers. New data about preterm infants is presented, and special situationsmultiples, breast cancer, overweight and large-breasted women, breast surgery, tattoos and piercingsare also discussed in detail. An expanded chapter on weaning features sections on breastfeeding past infancy. Also new is an appendix of online resources.
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The Complete Book of Breastfeeding is a recognized classic in its field. Now it's been completely revised and updated in a new fourth editionnon-doctrinaire, informative, and friendly, it is the most accessible and authoritative book, as much required reading for expecting and new mothers as a pregnancy guide and baby name book.
All healthy mothers should consider breastfeeding for the first year of a baby’s life, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and this is the book that will help women give their babies the healthiest start possible. Written by Sally Wendkos Olds and a new co-author, Laura Marks, M.D., The Complete Book of Breastfeeding, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to breastfeedinghow to get ready before the baby arrives; how to involve fathers and siblings; and the best diet and foods for mom. There are sections on dealing with problems at the hospital; extensive information on exclusive pumping (EPing); the best systems for giving supplementary bottles to a breastfed baby; the safest sleep scenarios for babies; breastfeeding in public, including laws affecting breastfeeding mothers. New data about preterm infants is presented, and special situationsmultiples, breast cancer, overweight and large-breasted women, breast surgery, tattoos and piercingsare also discussed in detail. An expanded chapter on weaning features sections on breastfeeding past infancy. Also new is an appendix of online resources.
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ISBN-13: | 9780761151135 |
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Publisher: | Workman Publishing Company |
Publication date: | 09/02/2010 |
Pages: | 432 |
Sales rank: | 1,001,071 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
With her husband, David Marks, MD, Dr. Marks coauthored The Headache Prevention Cookbook: Eating Right to Prevent Migraines and Other Headaches. She is the Medical Advisor to the Weston (Connecticut) School District and is on the Pediatric Executive Committee of Norwalk Hospital. Dr. Marks is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Section on Breastfeeding Medicine, the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, and La Leche League International.
Sally Wendkos Olds has written extensively about relationships, health, and personal growth. She has won national awards for her writing, including the Career Achievement Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, of which she is a member and a past president. Ms. Olds’ college textbooks on child and adult development, co-authored with psychologist Diane E. Papalia, Ph.D., have been read by more than two million students and are the leading texts in their fields. She is also the author of Super Granny: Great Stuff to Do with Your Grandkids, The Working Parents’ Survival Guide, and The Eternal Garden: Seasons of Our Sexuality, and the coauthor of Helping Your Child Find Values to Live By and Raising a Hyperactive Child.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Olds is a member of La Leche League International, International Childbirth Education Association, the Authors Guild, and other professional and civic organizations. She nursed her three daughters and is the proud grandmother of five breastfed children. Visit her at her website: www.SallyWendkosOlds.com.
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Introduction
If you were living at some other time or in some other place, you might not need this book. You might even wonder about its purpose, since you would be getting much of the information of these pages from your mother, your aunts, your older sister, and your neighbors. They would share with you their breastfeeding experiences and those of their mothers before them. As you saw them suckling their infants, you would pick up the "tricks of the trade" without even realizing it. It would never occur to you that you would not nurse your baby, because every baby that you had ever seen would have been fed at his mother's breast - except in the extremely rare case when a mother was too ill to nurse.
The paragraph that you have just read appeared as the introduction to the original edition of this book, published in 1972. It is one of the very few paragraphs that were carried over to the second edition, published in 1987, and once again into this edition.
Much has changed in the twenty-six years since The Complete Book of Breastfeeding was first conceived. The year 1971 (when the first edition of this book was being researched and written) marked the lowest rate of breastfeeding in the history of this country: Only one in four women even bean to breastfeed their babies. By 1987, well over half of all American mothers were nursing their newborn infants, and among well-educated middle-class women, the incidence was even higher. There was a slight dip in the prevalence of breastfeeding in the early 1990s, but that reversal has been righted, and the rates of breastfeeding are climbing again.
Over these years we, the authors (a pediatrician who has cared for hundreds of breastfed babies and a medical writer who nursed her own three children), have been delighted to see an explosion of research into the properties of breast milk, the value of nursing for both mothers and babies, and the practices that enhance or hinder the course of breastfeeding.
We have applauded professional organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, which in its December 1997 policy statement on breastfeeding acknowledged its great importance and urged doctors to help mothers and babies follow practices to ensure healthy nursing experiences. The Canadian Pediatric Society and the World Health Organization have also issued strong statements urging mothers to nurse and urging medical professionals to help mothers breastfeed their babies.
We've been happy to note that today's physicians learn more about breastfeeding in medical school and are less likely to believe that formula is "just as good" as breast milk, and that more hospitals are instituting more policies that promote breastfeeding rather than interfere with it.
Today, then, if you have questions about breastfeeding, you're more likely to have sources to go to - the doctors, nurses, and midwives who help you in childbirth, the friends and neighbors who are nursing or have nursed their own children, and a wealth of published material. Still, depending on where you live and where you have your baby, the information to get may or may not be helpful.
In too many places you're still likely to hear outdated, incorrect advice. Some medical professionals have not kept up with new research findings about the nutritional and immunological advantages of human milk for infants. Some laypersons, especially those from a generation more familiar with bottle-fed babies, are still convinced of the myths and superstitions they heard in a less enlightened time.
Breastfeeding is easy; there is nothing complicated about it. And there is no single best way to do it. Still, it is a skill that you have to learn, and it is an activity whose success depends on the kind of information and support that you get. Nursing a baby may fulfill and instinctual drive, but both you and your baby need to learn the actual procedures for breastfeeding and need to be reassured while you're learning.
Some mothers intuitively know what to do, puzzled by no questions and troubled by no problems. Most new mothers, however, have questions about all aspects of infant care. Sometimes a lack of information about breastfeeding makes a woman hesitate to embark upon an adventure that seems strange and bewildering. Other times, women reluctantly switch to the bottle when, had their questions been answered and their problems solved, they would have much preferred to continue being part of a nursing couple.
To help you do what you want to do and to make the most of what may be among the most memorable and enjoyable experiences of your entire life, we have once again updated and revised this book. It is very exciting for us to realize that many of the women who are reading this edition of our book are the grown children of our first readers, now nursing their babies. It is always a thrill to have so many women - some of them grandmothers - come up to us at meeting and tell us, "Your book was my bible."
While we thought our book was quite complete when the first edition came out, it included much more in the second edition, and has even more in this third edition: the findings from the most up-to-date scientific research and the results of what so many nursing mothers have learned works well for them. It also addresses a number of lifestyle issues that are increasingly important to contemporary mothers.
Thus, you'll see more in this edition about diet and fitness, about breastfeeding for the working mother (including the best way to express or pump and store breast milk), about breastfeeding as a sexual passage in the life of the mother, about nursing in public and legal issues related to this and other aspects of breastfeeding, and about nursing in a variety of special situations.
Although there is, as we said, no one "best way" to breastfeed, there are certain practices that seem to make the course of nursing go more smoothly for most mothers and babies, and it's these practices that we describe and recommend in these pages. However, every baby is unique, every mother is unique, and every family situation is unique. You may find that you and your baby do better by changing some of our recommendations. If it works for you, do it - and more power to you!
We're really happy that you're beginning this journey, which may be among the most exhilarating of your life, and we hope that this book will help you navigate it smoothly.
The three essential tools for successful breastfeeding are (1) knowing what to do (2) feeling confident that you're doing the right thing for your baby and yourself, and (3) being determined to persist in the face of any minor setbacks that may come your way.
As authors who've learned much more about our subject since we wrote our first book - and then still more since the publication of its second edition - we hope that this newest edition will help you develop all three of these tools.
Excerpted from the Introduction of The Complete Book of Breastfeeding. Copyright (c) 1999 by Marvin S. Eiger, M.D. and Sally Wendkos Olds. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing.
Table of Contents
Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 Will You or Won't You? 1
30-Day Guarantee 2
Why Breastfeed? Why Not? 2
Benefits for the Baby 3
Disadvantages of Formula-Feeding 5
American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Breastfeeding 7
Some of the Ways Breastfed Babies Differ from Formula-Fed Babies 10
From Sally Olds: A Mother's Enjoyment 16
Importance of Breastfeeding for the Mother 16
The WIC Program 19
When Breastfeeding May Not Be an Option 21
Reasons Women Give for Not Wanting to Breastfeed 22
A History Lesson: How Our Society Has Influenced Women 24
Today's Society and Breastfeeding 25
What Will You Do? 28
Chapter 2 Questions You May Have About Breastfeeding 29
Chapter 3 The Miracle of Lactation 44
The Development of Your Breasts 45
The Anatomy of Your Breasts 49
How Your Baby Gets Your Milk: The Let-Down Reflex 53
Signs of an Active Let-Down Reflex 56
Menstruation, Ovulation, and Pregnancy 57
Human Milk: The Ultimate Health Food 58
Chapter 4 Before Your Baby Comes 63
Choosing Your Health Care Providers 64
Types of Health Care Provider 64
Questions to Ask Health Practitioners 70
Choosing Where You'll Give Birth 74
The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding in a Baby-Friendly Hospital 76
Packing Your Bag 78
Choosing When You'll Give Birth 79
Prenatal Classes 79
Preparing Your Breasts 80
Who Will Mother You? 83
To Grandmas: How Yon Can Help 85
Chapter 5 Your Baby Is Here 89
The Ideal Beginning 90
Recommendations for Successful Breastfeeding from the American Academy of Pediatrics 91
Breastfeeding in a Hospital or Birthing Center 92
The First Nursing 93
A Gift That You Don't Want 95
Cesarean Birth 96
Mother-Baby Contact 97
Hospital Help 98
Hospital Hindrance 99
Speak Up in the Hospital 100
Newborn Health Measures 101
Chapter 6 Breastfeeding Begins 103
Bringing Your Baby to the Breast: Positive Positioning 104
What Makes a Good Position for Breastfeeding? 107
How Your Baby Gets Your Milk 111
How to Tell When a Baby is Actively Suckling 113
Waking a Sleepy Baby 116
How Frequently Should You Nurse Your New Baby? 117
How Long Should Early Nursing Periods Last? 119
Burping Your Baby 120
Bowel Movements 122
Your Baby's First Posthospital Doctor's Visit 122
Your Baby's Weight After Birth 123
Is My Baby Getting Enough Milk? 124
Judging Intake by Output 125
Jaundice in Infants 127
When to Seek Immediate Help 130
Exclusive Pumping 133
Bottle-Feeding the Breastfed Baby 133
How to Bottle-Feed the Breastfed Baby 134
Chapter 7 You Are a Nursing Family 138
Breastfeeding at Home 140
Tips on Relaxing Before and/or During Feedings 145
The Popular Pacifier 147
If You Have "Too Much" Milk 148
Breast Milk Bonus 148
Babywearing 149
When Your Baby Cries 150
The Colicky Baby 151
Ways to Comfort a Crying Baby 152
Sleeping Arrangements 157
Sleep and Lack of It: Night Feedings 161
Encouraging a Baby to Give Up Nighttime Nursing 162
Ways to Guard Your Rest 164
Diapers, Revisited 165
What Is Your Baby Like? 166
How to Discourage Biting 168
Cutting Down on Spitting Up 170
What Will You Call It? 171
Life as Part of a Nursing Family 171
Chapter 8 Diet, Exercise, and Your Health 172
Diet: What You Eat, What You Drink 173
Guidelines for Healthy Eating 174
The Healthy Eating Pyramid 175
Avoiding Harmful Environmental Substances 182
Losing Weight: How Much, How Soon? 186
What the Labels Usually Mean 187
Exercise: How Much, How Soon? 189
An Exercise Guide for the Nursing Mother 192
How Do You Feel-and Why Do You Feel This Way? 195
Ways to Boost Your Postpartum Morale 198
Differences Between Postpartum Blues and Postpartum Depression 201
Chapter 9 Confident, Comfortable Nursing at Home and Away 203
Care of Your Breasts 204
Finding the Right Nursing Bra 206
How You Look 209
Going Out with Your Baby 212
Nursing in Public 212
Flying with Your Nursing Baby 214
Chapter 10 Drugs and the Nursing Mother 217
Resources and Information about Drugs and Breastfeeding 219
Drugs During Childbirth 220
Medicines 221
Medicines That Can Usually Be Taken Safely by Nursing Mothers 224
Medicines That Should Not Be Taken by Nursing Mothers 225
Medicines That Require a Temporary Cessation of Breastfeeding 226
Medicines of Concern 226
Birth Control 229
Herbs and Other Natural Remedies 229
Recreational and Hard Drugs 230
Minimizing the Effect of Nicotine on Your Nursing Baby 231
Chapter 11 Pumping, Expressing, and Storing Breast Milk 235
What Kind of Pump Do You Need? 236
Choosing a Pump 237
Principles That Apply to All Methods of Collecting Milk 243
A Note of Caution about Bisphenol A (BPA) 245
How to Handle Expressed and Pumped Breast Milk 247
Storing Collected Breast Milk 248
Offering Expressed Milk to Your Baby 251
Chapter 12 The Working Nursing Mother 253
Finding Support 254
Planning Ahead: While You're Pregnant and Still on the Job 255
Employer-Supported Lactation Programs 258
Planning Ahead: While You're on Your Maternity Leave 260
Tips for Feeding a Baby from a Cup 263
Your Baby's Feedings While You're at Work 265
Back at Work 269
Wardrobe Tips for the Working Breastfeeding Mother 272
Chapter 13 Breastfeeding: A Sexual Passage 275
Sexy? Or Not So Sexy? 276
Resuming Sexual Activity 277
Pelvic Floor (Kegel) Exercises 279
You and Your Relationship 281
The Five Phases of Female Sexuality 282
Female Sexuality 282
The Sensuous Nature of Breastfeeding 284
Birth Control 286
Contraception for the Nursing Mother 288
Your Partner Is Still Your Lover 292
Chapter 14 Especially for Dad or Partner 297
Breastfeeding's Benefits for You, the Father 298
Becoming a Father 299
The Father's Importance in the Family 300
Boot Camp for New Dads 302
Your Baby's Mother Is Still Your Lover 304
Rolling Up Your Sleeves 305
How a "Breastfeeding" Father Can Nurture a Baby 306
You Can Be a Complete Father 307
Getting Support for Yourself 309
Chapter 15 Preventing and Treating Nursing-Related Problems 310
Disagreement with Your Doctor 311
Engorgement (Hard, Swollen Breasts) 312
Ways to Relieve Engorgement 313
Sore Nipples 314
Thrush 319
Clogged Duct (Plugged Duct, "Caked" Breasts) 321
Breast Infection (Mastitis) 322
Galactocele (Milk-Retention Cyst) 324
Sudden Increase in Baby's Demand 324
The Baby Who Gains Too Slowly 325
Helping the Older Baby Who Isn't Gaining 326
Nursing Supplementers 328
The Baby Who Gains Too Fast 330
Temporary Rejection of the Breast ("Nursing Strike") 331
When an Older Baby Refuses the Breast 333
Chapter 16 Special Situations 335
Breastfeeding Your Preterm (Premature) Infant 336
Separation of Mother and Baby 346
If Your Baby Gets Sick 346
If You Get Sick 347
If You Have Had Breast Surgery 351
Piercing and Tattooing 353
Twins and More 354
Nursing Through a Pregnancy and Tandem Nursing Afterward 356
Milk Banks 357
Breastfeeding Another Woman's Baby 358
Relactation and Nursing an Adopted Baby 359
Succeeding at Induced Lactation or Relactation 360
Babies with Special Needs 362
Chapter 17 Beyond Breastfeeding 365
Vitamins 366
Recommended Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation for Breastfed Babies 367
Weaning Your Child 368
Extended Breastfeeding 371
"When Are You Going to Stop Nursing?" 372
How Should You Wean? 373
Suggestions for Weaning the Older Child 375
How Weaning Affects You 377
Other Food and Drink 379
Offering Solid Foods 382
Staying Close with Your Child 384
Appendix I Breastfeeding and the Law 385
Appendix II Resource Appendix: Helpful Organizations and Sources of Information 389
Appendix III Website Appendix 401
Appendix IV A Comparison of Cow's Milk And Human Milk 405
Index 408
Introduction
The paragraph that you have just read appeared as the introduction to the original edition of this book, published in 1972. It is one of the very few paragraphs that were carried over to the second edition, published in 1987, and once again into this edition.
Much has changed in the twenty-six years since The Complete Book of Breastfeeding was first conceived. The year 1971 (when the first edition of this book was being researched and written) marked the lowest rate of breastfeeding in the history of this country: Only one in four women even bean to breastfeed their babies. By 1987, well over half of all American mothers were nursing their newborn infants, and among well-educated middle-class women, the incidence was even higher. There was a slight dip in the prevalence of breastfeeding in the early 1990s, but that reversal has been righted, and the rates of breastfeeding are climbing again.
Over these years we, the authors (a pediatrician who has cared for hundreds of breastfed babies and a medical writer who nursed her own three children), have been delighted to see an explosion of research into the properties of breast milk, the value of nursing for both mothers and babies, and the practices that enhance or hinder the course of breastfeeding.
We have applauded professional organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, which in its December 1997 policy statement on breastfeeding acknowledged its great importance and urged doctors to help mothers and babies follow practices to ensure healthy nursing experiences. The Canadian Pediatric Society and the World Health Organization have also issued strong statements urging mothers to nurse and urging medical professionals to help mothers breastfeed their babies.
We've been happy to note that today's physicians learn more about breastfeeding in medical school and are less likely to believe that formula is "just as good" as breast milk, and that more hospitals are instituting more policies that promote breastfeeding rather than interfere with it.
Today, then, if you have questions about breastfeeding, you're more likely to have sources to go to - the doctors, nurses, and midwives who help you in childbirth, the friends and neighbors who are nursing or have nursed their own children, and a wealth of published material. Still, depending on where you live and where you have your baby, the information to get may or may not be helpful.
In too many places you're still likely to hear outdated, incorrect advice. Some medical professionals have not kept up with new research findings about the nutritional and immunological advantages of human milk for infants. Some laypersons, especially those from a generation more familiar with bottle-fed babies, are still convinced of the myths and superstitions they heard in a less enlightened time.
Breastfeeding is easy; there is nothing complicated about it. And there is no single best way to do it. Still, it is a skill that you have to learn, and it is an activity whose success depends on the kind of information and support that you get. Nursing a baby may fulfill and instinctual drive, but both you and your baby need to learn the actual procedures for breastfeeding and need to be reassured while you're learning.
Some mothers intuitively know what to do, puzzled by no questions and troubled by no problems. Most new mothers, however, have questions about all aspects of infant care. Sometimes a lack of information about breastfeeding makes a woman hesitate to embark upon an adventure that seems strange and bewildering. Other times, women reluctantly switch to the bottle when, had their questions been answered and their problems solved, they would have much preferred to continue being part of a nursing couple.
To help you do what you want to do and to make the most of what may be among the most memorable and enjoyable experiences of your entire life, we have once again updated and revised this book. It is very exciting for us to realize that many of the women who are reading this edition of our book are the grown children of our first readers, now nursing their babies. It is always a thrill to have so many women - some of them grandmothers - come up to us at meeting and tell us, "Your book was my bible."
While we thought our book was quite complete when the first edition came out, it included much more in the second edition, and has even more in this third edition: the findings from the most up-to-date scientific research and the results of what so many nursing mothers have learned works well for them. It also addresses a number of lifestyle issues that are increasingly important to contemporary mothers.
Thus, you'll see more in this edition about diet and fitness, about breastfeeding for the working mother (including the best way to express or pump and store breast milk), about breastfeeding as a sexual passage in the life of the mother, about nursing in public and legal issues related to this and other aspects of breastfeeding, and about nursing in a variety of special situations.
A Note About Language
Since babies come in two sexes, we write about them accordingly, alternating gender pronouns throughout the book. This seems to be the fairest solution to a problem that plagues most writers sensitive to the bias implicit in the English language.
We made another linguistic decision by alternating references to "your husband" "your partner," and "your baby's father." It's likely that most readers of this book are married, but that quite a few are not. You may be living with an adult who is neither your husband nor your baby's father. Or you may be raising your child alone; in this case, you may not be able to get the kind of help that a life partner can provide, and you may need to reach out for help to family members, friends, and members of your community. No matter what your personal situation may be, you can still breastfeed your baby and you can still benefit from most of the suggestions in these pages.
Excerpted from The Complete Book of Breastfeeding. Copyright (c) 1999. Reprinted with permission by Workman Publishing.