How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother

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In this hilarious breast-feeding tell-all - the first of its kind - Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her rookie year as a nursing mother. She gives readers the skinny on important new mom essentials such as: chocolate, ice cream, sexy nursing bras, lactation consultants, breast pumps, mother's groups, play dates, Mommy and Me Yoga (not), and much more.

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Overview

In this hilarious breast-feeding tell-all - the first of its kind - Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her rookie year as a nursing mother. She gives readers the skinny on important new mom essentials such as: chocolate, ice cream, sexy nursing bras, lactation consultants, breast pumps, mother's groups, play dates, Mommy and Me Yoga (not), and much more.

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Like many mothers-to-be, Shapiro romanticized breastfeeding: "I envisioned tender mommy moments... nursing my baby." As a result, before daughter Sophie arrived, Shapiro followed the ignorance-is-bliss approach: "I remember thinking breastfeeding instruction was a waste of time. `It's the most natural thing in the world.' " Surprise, surprise when she discovers it's significantly harder than Brooke Shields makes it look in The Blue Lagoon. Mimicking the frank, humorous style of The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy, Shapiro relates, in frequently graphic detail, the perils of breastfeeding: tender breasts, engorgement, sore nipples, nursing injuries and cluster feedings. Over the course of Sophie's first year, Shapiro, with the help of lactation consultants and a nursing support group, becomes a breastfeeding advocate, proselytizing to new moms ("I found it difficult to fathom how easy nursing had gotten. My instinct was to spread the word"). Shapiro maintains an easy voice, though the book turns startlingly somber as she writes of September 11, 2001, which feels starkly out of place in this breezy memoir. Shapiro is this book's star, and Sophie (never mind husband Peter) plays a surprisingly small role. At times, Shapiro seems shallow, obsessing about her appearance and the commonness of her daughter's name. Mothers who formula feed will find little in this narrative; those who have struggled with breastfeeding, however, will laugh with empathy at Shapiro's tales of weight loss (or lack thereof), cabbage leaves (used to relieve engorgement) and the unending fluids that emerge from a nursing woman's body. Agent, JCA Literary Agency. (May) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592287949
  • Publisher: Lyons Press, The
  • Publication date: 1/1/2006
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Lisa Wood Shapiro, a writer and Emmy-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS, A&E, Nickelodeon, Noggin, and elsewhere, studied nonfiction writing with the late Lucy Grealy and the poet Thomas Lux. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.

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Table of Contents

Preface: The Most Natural Thing in the World and Brooke Shields xi
Part 1
1. Silly Pregnant Lady 5
2. Don't Bite Your Newborn 20
3. The Panic and the Pain 43
4. They Are Going to Reach Out and Touch You 57
5. Get Yourself to a Breast-feeding Support Group 70
6. Feed unto Others as You Yourself Would Like to Have Been Fed 77
7. Behind Every Successful Nursing Mother 85
8. Find Your Own Kind 100
9. Red Angry Nipples 113
10. The "Vacation" 122
Part 2
11. It Gets Easier 141
12. The Other Thing Behind a Nursing Mom ... 149
13. The Purgatory of Part-time Work 161
14. The Comfort of Nursing 173
15. A Half-hour Late to a Half-hour Class or the Baby Formerly Known as Sophie 183
16. Beware of Bake Sales 197
17. Weaning 208
18. In Sync with the Universe 216
Epilogue: Cranks, Hot Mamas, and Sherpas 221
Acknowledgments 225
Bibliography 227
Resources 229
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