Breastfeeding with Confidence: A Do-it-Yourself Guide

Description

Breastfeeding is a practical skill which young women used to learn by watching a mother breastfeed her baby. Today there are many new mothers who would like to breastfeed but who have not had the opportunity to successfully learn how to do it. This practical book aims to help by presenting easily understood information, including many stories and comments from breastfeeding mothers that provide a wealth of reassuring advice for others. Sue Cox, lactation consultant and educator, provides simple answers to the wide range of questions asked by contemporary mothers on many topics, including: what you need to know about your baby to make breastfeeding work; understanding breasts and breastmilk; patterns of feeding; changes in your relationship with your partner; difficulties with breastfeeding; and weaning your child. Also included are useful lists of 'Things to do' which provide both preventative and problem-solving approaches to difficulties that may arise during breastfeeding. Breastfeeding with Confidence is a revised and enlarged edition of Sue Cox's earlier book, Breastfeeding - I Can Do That, a recognised, authoritative guide to this subject.

Sue Cox, AM, certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and midwife, is widely respected as one of Australia's leading educators and practitioners in the field. Her expertise has been developed through motherhood, as an Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor for nearly 30 years and as a midwife, breastfeeding specialist and lactation consultant for 25 years. Sue's work has been recognised in the 2004 Australia Day Honours list for service to community health, particularly as a lactation consultant, educator and counsellor for the care of breastfeeding mothers and their babies.

"'How are you going to feed your baby?' 'Oh, I'll breastfeed if I can!' Who among us wouldn't have loved to have had a dollar for every time we heard that. Sue Cox, arguably Australia's most experienced lactation health professional, must have heard it more often than most .... The book is small, easy to read, put down and pick up again and will fit very easily into the bag to bring into hospital ... The tone in which this book is written reinforces the mother's confidence in her body and her own ability to care for her baby.... And the symbols used throughout draw the reader's attention to specific points ..." From the review in the National Association of Lactation Colleges newsletter, by Denise Fisher, IBCLC, February 1999.