Nikki 

I am enjoying The Science of Parenting by Margot Sunderland at present. Lots
of information for parents about a baby's brain development.  It gives
reasons why they themselves are important to helping their baby developing
'calming' pathways in the brain.  Lots of information to counter the
'controlled crying' 'self soothing' 'don't make a rod for your own back'
regimes.  E.g. p 49 - a paragraph in section on hard to comfort babies:
"Remember what a long term gift you are giving your child when you calm her.
All that calming time is an investment for the future, regulating her
emotional and physical systems, which means that later she will have the
ability to manage stress well."  And all this in a book with colour
photographs and easy read format.

Shaughn Leach RM, IBCLC, DipT
Perth, Western Australia



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Subject: favorite books; opinion of one

Dear Friends:
 
My favorite books are (in no particular order) CW Genna's book, the 3rd  
edition of the Breastfeeding Atlas and Cadwell and Turner-Maffei's fabulous

little book Case Studies in Breastfeeding. There are a host of  reference
books 
that a practitioner should own, such as Lawrence and Lawrence,  Riordan,
Hale's 
Medications and Mother's Milk.
 
I highly recommend Uvnas-Moberg's book about Oxytocin, and Odent's The  
Scientification of Love.  Also Rollnick's Health Behavior  Change,  and the 
Hesperian Foundation's Helping Healthcare Workers  Learn. 
 
I've also enjoyed Lakoff's Don't Think and Elephant, finding its  ideas very

applicable to our work. Ditto for A Whack on the Side of the  Head (von
Oech).
 
What other books do people love?
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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