Sharon:

Hi I was just wondering what everyone does with their old books.  eg, I have
a Goldfarb and Tibbetts book from 1980, old Ruth Lawrence Books, a Dr. Spock
book from 1950, "Simplified Infant Feeding ", from 1915etc.  I have saved
them but it is becoming a clutter. Any suggestions????

Sharon, I SAVE mine (in the loft, if necessary) -- some of these old books have
valuable historical info.  I use mine to look back and see where some of the
poor info we are still dealing with comes from.  For example, a diagram in the
1981 (possibly also in the 1951 edition, but I don't have that) of 'MacKeith's
Infant Feeding Difficulties' shows a mother in bed with the baby's head firmly
in the crook of her arm, also a drawing of the mother's fingers holding breast
tissue away from the nipple, to offer to the baby.  Makes me realise why my
first baby, born in 1986, attracted such duff information from my midwives.

Great resources for training -- 'where we went wrong'.

I have also started buying old books second hand -- recently bought Mavis
Gunther's Infant Feeding, which contains info cited by Mike Woolridge adn Chole
Fisher in their '80's work on breastfeeding.

So, if you don't want those books, someone will -- !!

Magda Sachs (I confess -- I have been known to buy copies of the Stanway's
'Breast is Best', which I still sometimes see in second hand stores, and THROW
IT OUT, but I *have* aquired my own 50's Spock -- complete with British
advertising inset for formula milk, and my mother buys me ancient editions of
'The Womanly Art' and other american gems)
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN (with a history degree), UK

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