An all-new edition of the book breastfeeding mothers have relied on for generations is here!
For many years, La Leche League has set the standard for supporting families in the art of breastfeeding. This new edition brings that support to today’s parents, with up-to-date information, new illustrations, and stories from mothers, fathers, and grandparents around the world about their experiences.
What’s inside?
• why breastfeeding matters
• feeding cues and nursing positions for getting started
• life with your breastfed baby
• managing common challenges (with new research)
• expressing and storing your milk, especially when going back to work
• sleep and how to get more of it
• starting family foods and weaning
La Leche League is here to help you meet your breastfeeding goals, whether you’re planning to breastfeed for a few weeks or a few years. This book puts information at your fingertips, ready to help you at any point on your breastfeeding journey.
* This audiobook edition ncludes a downloadable PDF of illustrations and charts from the book.
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Teresa Pitman has been writing about birth, breastfeeding, and parenting for more than twenty-five years. She co-wrote the popular “Steps and Stages” columns in Today’s Parent, Canada’s national parenting magazine, and has also written for many other magazines, including Mothering, Family Fun, Chatelaine, and More.
Frankie Corzo is a film and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. She obtained a BA degree in theater studies from Montclair State University.
Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.
Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s, and the Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been named by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She lives in New York.