Balancing Breast and Bottle: Reaching Your Breastfeeding Goals, 1st edition helped mothers worldwide successfully feed their babies at the breast and with a bottle. Positive reviews from mothers included:"I cannot recommend this book highly enough, and I will be gifting it to all future moms I know who plan to breast and bottle feed!""Buy it! I thought I could find the same info online but save your time and energy. You'll be so thrilled you did. I now feel prepared to go back to work." "This book helped my baby become a breast and bottle feeding champ!"The second edition, like the first, is a must read for any mother who wants to breast and bottle feed her baby. This book will help you get breastfeeding off to a good start and guide you through the process of selecting and using a bottle that is right for your breastfed baby. It includes an expanded breastfeeding section, updated recommendations for collecting, storing, and stockpiling milk, and information about safe formula preparation and use. Along with these changes comes a new tagline: Feeding Your Baby.Balancing Breast and Bottle: Feeding Your Baby, 2nd edition is for new mothers who want information about:?Bottle selection specific for your baby?How to make a bottle with breast milk, formula, or both?Using your letdown pattern as a guide for bottle pacing?Overcoming breast and bottle feeding obstacles?Feeding your baby when apart?Pacifier use and the breastfed baby ?Finding a balance that is right for you and your babyAmy Peterson, BS, IBCLC, and Mindy Harmer, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC, offer the combined expertise of an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Certified Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Lactation Counselor. They bring two unique and informed perspectives in selecting and using a bottle and pacifier for a breastfed baby.

Epidemiologic evidence demonstrating the health benefits of human milk has grown in recent years, but the story of why these forms of evidence have dramatically increased in recent decades, Koerber reveals, is a tale of the dedicated individuals, coalitions, and organizations engaged in relentless rhetorical efforts to improve our scientific explanations and cultural appreciation of human milk, lactation, and breastfeeding in the context of a historical tendency to devalue these distinctly female aspects of the human body. Koerber demonstrates that the rhetoric used to promote breastfeeding at a given time and cultural moment not only reflects a preexisting reality but also shapes the infant-feeding experience for new mothers. Koerber's claims are grounded in extensive rhetorical research including textual analysis, archival research, and interviews with key stakeholders in the breastfeeding controversy.

Monitoring mothers: a recent history of following the doctor's orders -- The science: does breastfeeding make smarter, happier, and healthier babies? -- Minding your own (risky) business: health and personal responsibility -- From the womb to the breast: total motherhood and risk-free children -- Scaring mothers: the government campaign for breastfeeding -- Conclusion: whither breastfeeding?

Now updated with a new chapter about childhood obesity, this invaluable, commonsense guide takes all the anxiety and mystery out of feeding babies and children by giving parents sound, practical advice in an easy-to-follow form.

The Model Chapter on Infant and Young Child Feeding is intended for use in basic training of health professionals. It describes essential knowledge and basic skills that every health professional who works with mothers and young children should master. The Model Chapter can be used by teachers and students as a complement to textbooks or as a concise reference manual.

From the colonial period through to the 20th century, this text examines the intersection of medical science, social theory and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians and families. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the 20th century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.

'Emily Oster is the non-judgemental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way' Amy Schumer Parenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized over. There is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths and offers non-judgemental ways to consider our options in light of the facts. Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide that empowers us to make better, less fraught decisions - and stay sane in the years before preschool. *Now you can navigate the primary school years with Emily Oster too, in her new book The Family Firm, out now*