The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by Martha Sears, William Sears Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
Book Review: Wonderful book...
Summary: 5 Stars
This really is a fabulous book. You really have to take the cosleeping talk and the things you don't necessarily agree on with a grain of salt. Read around those views if you don't believe in them, because the rest of the book is fabulous. Take to heart the instruction and the positive feedback this book provides. I could have NEVER lived without it, and it is already being borrowed for the 5th time! Everyone who has used it, loves it!
Good luck!
Book Review: Informative, Motivating and Easy-To-Read
Summary: 5 Stars
The Breastfeeding Book does a great job of relating why it is so important to breastfeed and teaching techniques of getting started and dealing with any problems. It contains much of the same information as The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, but in a more organized and easy-to-read format (I recommend The Womanly Art as well, though). I have been nursing my baby with great success, and the information from this book has helped me to give my son the best nutritional start in life. The Sears' emphasis on attachment parenting, while off-putting to some, is actually helpful, because one of the most important (but often overlooked) keys to successful breastfeeding is to feed on cue, day and night, rather than on a schedule (and that won't keep you up all night if your baby sleeps near you- after the first few weeks most babies only need one or two nighttime feedings). Feeding on cue is what maintains your milk supply, and it often makes the difference between moms who succeed at breastfeeding and those who "just couldn't do it".Book Review: Horrible book
Summary: 1 Stars
I hated this book. I didn't even read the whole thing because it was boring and I did not like the Sears views on mothers who give their babies formula. I read The Everything Breastfeeding Book and I loved it. I was never bored. My baby was in the NICU and her first night she was given bottles. The second day she was given my pumped milk in bottles and formula because my milk was not all the way in yet. My baby would not latch on when we got home so my mom bought me the Medela nipple shields to use and that is how I breast feed my baby. The Sears would call me a horrible mother because I "didn't try hard enough" but I really did all I could it just didn't work so I made it work with soem help from a nipple shield.Book Review: Good Breastfeeding Support
Summary: 5 Stars
Breastfeeding requires a lot of support and information that The Breastfeeding Book provides. It is one of many resources to turn to when in need of accurate information when there is so much bad advice found in books and the medical community on breastfeeding.
The Womanly Art
of Breastfeeding is the breastfeeding "bible" that this book seems to get alot of its information from.
Book Review: Not completely won over
Summary: 3 Stars
This book has great tips for breastfeeding. However, I am not so sure I like the Sears' attitude. I am not a fan of co-sleeping and think they hit it a little hard. I agree with some other reviewers that they are too negative regarding bottle-feeding. I have been lucky with breastfeeding my baby girl, but have many friends that have had problems and the rigid outlook of the Sears is not very helpful. Take their advice with a grain of salt - you are the mother, do what you think is best.