INA MAY'S GUIDE TO BREASTFEEDING

by INA MAY GASKIN

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New softcover book, 341 pages, published 2009.Minor cover damage at top of book's spine.

Everything you need to know to make breastfeeding a joyful, natural and richly fulfilling experience for both you and your baby .

Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares practical recommendations for making breastfeeding a mutually beneficial experience, covering topics that range from breast pumps and sleeping arrangements to nursing multiples and returning to work.

Filled with sensible, practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:

• How breastfeeding works and how it relates to mothering
• Preparing for breastfeeding
• How birth practices affect breastfeeding
• Getting started: the basics
• Your baby's needs - and yours - during the first week
• Problem-solving during the first week
• Sleeping arrangements
• If you have a job outside the home
• The first three months
• As your baby gets older
• Breastfeeding twins .... and more
• When babies get sick or need hospitalisation
• Weaning
• Shared breastfeeding, wet-nursing and forgotten knowledge
• Nipplephobia: what is it and why we should eradicate it
• Creating a breastfeeding culture

About the author
Ina May Gaskin is one of America's leading midwives. She and her husband Stephen founded the famous intentional community known as The Farm in Summertown Tennessee in 1971. There, she and the midwives of the Farm created one of the first out-of-hospital birth centers in the United States. Standards of birthing at the Farm are modeled to the recommendations of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Several family members and friends are commonly in attendance and are encouraged to take an active role in the birth.

Ina May is one of the Founders and a past president (1996 to 2002) of the Midwives' Alliance of North America. She is a powerful advocate for a woman's right to give birth without excessive and unnecessary medical intervention. Her clinical midwifery skills have been developed entirely through independent study and apprenticeship with other midwives around the world. Ina May and fellow Farm midwives were instrumental in the development of the rigorous Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) certification process.

Ina May travels internationally on speaking engagements and networking with other midwives and midwife alliances. She has lectured and continues to lecture at midwifery conferences and medical schools all over the world. She is also the author of Spiritual Midwifery, the classic book on homebirth, now in its fourth edition, and Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

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Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding by Ina May Gaskin