Barb,
   Two useful resources, designed for quite different readers are:

1) Riordan & Auerbach. Breastfeeding & human lactation. Jones & Bartlett, 2nd edn.
This is a world-clas textbook for lactation consultants and nruses and has useful, evidence-based information of newborn breastfeeding management and "red flags" (things to worry about).

2) Newman & Pitman. Dr Jack Newman's guide to breastfeeding.  Toronto: HarperCollins 2000.  [I believe there is a US edition, too.]  This is more for the general reader, but has useful information about assessing whether a baby is simply at the breast (but doing nothing - *not* breastfeeding) or is breastfeeding effectively (i.e. with milk transfer).  Plus waht to do about it, if the baby is not drinking.

There is other material, if one wants to search the journals, but the above are reliable, accessible texts.
        Virginia
        In Brisbane
        in Queensland, the Sunshine State

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