Breastfeeding Doesn't Have to Suck!: Tips, Tricks & Knowledge for a Great Experience

by Melinda Cockeram

Overview

Today's pregnant woman recognizes the many benefits of feeding her baby her own breast milk and feels immense pressure to breastfeed BUT she is also bombarded with endless horror stories of damaged nipples, worry over low milk supply and guilt if she uses formula. Highlighting advice from today's breastfeeding mothers, professional lactation consultants and the latest research, Breastfeeding Doesn't Have To Suck presents an unbiased guide to help make a daunting experience great. Starting from the moment of birth, you are chaperoned through topics like the effects of labor & delivery procedures on the milk supply, attaching and latching with little pain, creating a dependable supply and anticipating problems beforehand. Most chapters are accompanied by memorable anecdotes, tips, breastfeeding stories, chapters for support partners and quick review summaries

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781078723626
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/20/2019
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Mindy Cockeram graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications in 1986. After relocating to London, England in 1990 and working for 14 years in the financial markets, she received a diploma from the University of Bedfordshire in Antenatal Education (2006) in conjunction with the National Childbirth Trust’s (NCT’ s) Teacher Training College. She taught for both the Wimbledon & Wandsworth Branch of the NCT and St Georges Hospital, Tooting SW20.
On the way to an NCT antenatal class in Wandsworth in 2009, she stumbled upon a woman in labor in a parking lot and delivered the baby. “I knew there was a reason for that coincidence and that I was in the right line of work” she said in an interview with London’s ITV News.
In that same year as the ‘car park birth’, Mindy and her family relocated to Southern California where she certified with Lamaze International. She teaches childbirth education both privately and for a large hospital organization several times a week in the Inland Empire. She posts evidence based research articles on her Facebook site (learn4birth.com) and has a website of the same name: www.learn4birth.com.