Why doesn’t every mother breastfeed her baby? Breast milk is free, available on demand and has numerous health benefits. For very few women, breastfeeding will be physiologically impossible. However, the majority of those who formula feed do so because that is their choice. In her book, Gabrielle Palmer questions exactly…
Before those life changing blue lines appear on your pregnancy test, you may not have considered the political and highly emotive issue of how you will feed your baby. Maternity wards give you the “hard sell” on breastfeeding, but due to resourcing issues there is very little support available to…
The Fabulous Mum’s Handbook by Grace Saunders is a chatty guide to becoming and being a mother. Rather than focusing on baby care, the book considers pregnancy, birth and parenting from the mother’s perspective, and deals with the body and mind issues that occur to most women as they become a…
In a world where celebrities bounce back into their skinny jeans days after childbirth, The Post-Pregnancy Handbook deals with how normal people recover postpartum. Why is baby weight so hard to shift? What does post-natal depression feel like? How will having a baby affect your sex life? These and many of the…
The title of this book is the question that the medical establishment thinks that it has already answered with a resounding “yes”. If you visit any antenatal clinic in the United Kingdom, you will certainly encounter propaganda (there is no other word for it), including leaflets and posters encouraging women…
The beautiful photograph on the cover of Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding sets the tone for the whole of this book. The picture shows a happy contented baby breastfeeding, gazing lovingly up to her mother, which is exactly the relaxed scene that new mothers hope for when breastfeeding is established. There are…