>The book I used  was  Penny and Andrew Stanway's Breast is Best, 
>then  a slim volume now   much thicker,  it  has been updated 
>several times.  They are  both Doctors.  Penny also ran  one of the 
>best sessions attended   I've been to on helping skills . 
>Helen Butler
>England


Breast is Best was revolutionary - not the first UK-grown book for 
mothers on bf (there was Sylvia Close and Sheila K before then) but 
the first one that came out just at the moment that mothers and HCPs 
started to realise what we had lost with the move away from bf.

I think the first edition was 1978.

I was assistant editor of a parenting magazine at the time, and Penny 
Stanway was our breastfeeding expert - I learnt loads from her, as I 
had direct contact with her in my role as editor of the 'help and 
advice' pages. The questions mothers sent to us were heart-breaking, 
and many of the issues they raised continue these days, sadly.

It was the main book to read when I first began training as a bfc in 1980.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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