Please submit your comments on one or more books listed below within the next couple of days!
Dear IBCLCs,
We hope that you will help us create a resource for nursing mothers entitled "Popular Books for Expectant and New Parents: What the Lactation Consultants Had to Say." Our vision is that this resource will be used as an educational tool to stimulate discussion among nursing mothers and mother-to-mother support counselors about the breastfeeding information available in popular books. Once the resource has been created and edited, we will be happy to email it to those who might find it to be useful. Additionally, this resource will be used for a study about breastfeeding information. Details follow!
By July 31, we would like you to rate (on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most positive rating) and then provide comments, criticisms, and/or praise about the breastfeeding-related information contained in some of the most popular pregnancy/baby and breastfeeding books according to Amazon.com (see list at bottom of posting). This is a very large and inclusive list of books-your comments on any one (or more) of these
books would be greatly appreciated. Please send comments directly to: [log in to unmask]
As you consider commenting on a book, it might be helpful to think about the following questions:
1) Would you recommend this book to an expectant/new mother? Why?; and
2) If an expectant/new mother you are counseling already has this book, what information within the book might be problematic (or particularly helpful) to her if she uses the book as a resource for breastfeeding? Why is this information problematic (or particularly helpful)? It would also be interesting for us to know how you would handle (or
have handled) a situation in which a mother you counseled used a book containing problematic (or particularly helpful) information as a resource.
In the introduction of this posting, we mentioned that this resource was also going to be used as part of a study on breastfeeding information. This study is being conducted by Pam Lottero-Perdue, a nursing mom, a new counselor for Nursing Mothers, Inc (NMI; in DE, MD, & PA), and a graduate student investigating how nursing mothers are critical of (e.g. accept in whole or part, reject, ignore) the written/spoken texts that they encounter related to breastfeeding. She hopes to take notes on how nursing mothers and counselors in NMI respond to the "Popular Books for Expectant and New Parents: What the Lactation Consultants Had to Say" resource. Although she may use direct quotations from the comments you provide in response to this posting, she will not use your names in her research, and will instead refer to each contribution as coming from an IBCLC participating on Lactnet. Of course, participation in the creation of the resource is entirely voluntary and you may withdraw your
response at any time. If you would like to respond to this posting to help create our resource, but do not want your comments to be included
as a part of Pam's research, please state that at the top of your response. If you have questions or would like more information about the study, please contact Pam at [log in to unmask] If you have any concerns about the way the research will be conducted, please contact Dr. T.W.Fraser Russell, Vice Provost for Research (210 Hullihen Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-1551, 302-831-2136).
If you choose to respond, please send your response to Pam at [log in to unmask] Make sure to let her know if you would like to have a copy of the "Popular Books for Expectant and New Parents: What the Lactation Consultants Had to Say" resource that we compose sent to your email address.
Thank you,
Terriann Shell, IBCLC, ICCE
Pam Lottero-Perdue, University of Delaware [log in to unmask]
Breastfeeding Books
1. The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know about Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by Martha Sears & William Sears
2. Eat Well, Lose Weight While Breastfeeding: Complete Nutrition Book for Nursing Mothers, Including a Healthy Guide to Weight Loss Your Doctor Promised by Eileen Behan
3. So That's What They're For: Breastfeeding Basics by Janet Tamaro
4. The Nursing Mother's Companion by Kathleen Huggins et al.
5. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League, Inlt.
6. Bestfeeding: Getting Breastfeeding Right for You by Mary Renfrew et al
7. How Weaning Happens by Diane Bengson
8. The Complete Book of Breastfeeding (Revised Edition) by Sally Wendkos Olds et al.
9. Mothering Your Nursing Toddler by Norma J. Bumgarner
10. Nursing Mother, Working Mother: The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby After You Return to Work by Gale Pryor
11. Breastfeeding Your Baby (Revised Edition) by Sheila Kitzinger
12. Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More by Karen Kerkhoff Gromada
13. The Breastfeeding Answer Book by Nancy Mohrbacher, et al
14. The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers: The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America by Jack Newman, M.D. and Theresa Pitman
15, Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery, Diana West
Pregnancy/Baby Books (The order of these books is the order in which these appear on the list of pregnancy/parenting bestsellers; some books unlikely to have breastfeeding-related content have been omitted from the Amazon.com list.)
1. The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp
2. What to Expect When You're Expecting (Third Edition) by Arlene Eisenberg et. al.
3. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by
4. The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine
5. The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved-One-to-Four-Year-Old by Harvey Karp & Paula Spencer
6. The Merck Manual of Medical Information (Second Edition): The World's Most Widely Used Medical Reference - Now in Everyday Language by Mark H. Beers, et al.
7. The Baby Book: Everything You Ned to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) by William Sears, et al.
8. What to Expect the First Year, Second Edition, by Heidi Murkoff, et al.
9. Super Baby Food, by Ruth Yaron
10. The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears
11. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 by the AAP, et al.
12. On Becoming Baby Wise: The Classic Reference Guide Used by Over 1,000,000 Parents Worldwide by Gary Ezzo, Robert Buckman
13. Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau
14. First Meals by Annabel Karmel
15. The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: The Ultimate Guide to Conception, Birth, and Everything In Between (U.S. Edition) by Ann Douglas
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