Breastfeeding

Breast Is Best! Breast-feeding for Success
The New Mom's Manual : Over 800 Tips and Advice from Hundreds of Moms for Baby's First Year
by Mary Jeanne Menna
Experts agree that breast milk is the best source of nutrition for baby, providing just the right amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, as well as critical enzymes and antibodies that promote immunities to fight disease in your baby.

Choosing to Breastfeed
The American Academy of Pediatrics New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding
by The American Academy of Pediatrics, Joan Younger Meek, M.D., Sherill Tippins
As you prepare for motherhood, you will want answers to all of your questions about breastfeeding. You will want to consider how it is possible to combine breastfeeding with work outside the home, how you can fully involve your partner in parenting

Questions You May Have About Getting Ready to Breastfeed
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
I'm expecting my first baby and I'm concerned that nursing may make my breasts sag. Will it? Pregnancy, not breastfeeding, is what causes breasts to change. The hormones of pregnancy enlarge your breasts and stretch your skin as your body prepares to make

Great Ingredients in the Recipe for Breast Milk
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
Each species of mammal makes a unique kind of milk that can satisfy all the nutritional requirements of its offspring at the beginning of life. This milk, like blood, has specific qualities that ensure the survival of the young in its particular

What's In It for Mother?
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
By providing milk from your breasts, you're guaranteeing the best nourishment for your baby. But breastfeeding is healthier not just for babies. It's healthier for mothers, too. During breastfeeding, you give your baby ideal nourishment and nurturing

Healthier Children and Adults
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
Many parents are relieved to learn that breastfed babies are less likely to become victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). There are many ways in which breastfeeding could influence the incidence of SIDS.

Immunities, Reduced Risk of Diabetes
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
Breastfeeding, plus the delayed introduction of cow's milk, reduces the risk of juvenile-onset diabetes. In addition, researchers have shown a lower insulin release in breastfed infants compared to infants fed formula.

Intestinal Health
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
Breast milk is known as the easy in-easy out food. It's easier to digest and makes easier-to-pass stools. In fact, breast milk contains enzymes that help babies digest their meals from the breast. Whey, the predominant protein in breast milk

Better Hearing, Breathing and Hearts
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
Not only do breastfed infants think, grow, and see better, but they are also likely to hear better. Being able to hear well is necessary for language development, so this benefit of breastfeeding is very important. The reason breastfeeding promotes health

Leaner Adult Bodies, Better Eyes
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
Breastfed infants become leaner adults. New research is discovering that leanness is associated with general health and well-being and with a lower risk of such diseases as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

Why Breast Is Best
The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
by Martha Sears, R. N., William Sears, M. D.
IN THE EARLY DAYS of learning to breastfeed, there may be times when you feel like tossing in the nursing bra and reaching for a bottle. You may be tempted to believe those advisers who suggest that formula feeding is easier or just as good.

Introduction
The Complete Book of Breastfeeding: Revised Edition
by Marvin S. Eiger, M.D., Sally Wendkos Olds
Today, if you have questions about breastfeeding, you're more likely to have sources to go to - the doctors, nurses, and midwives who help you in childbirth, the friends and neighbors who are nursing or have nursed their own children