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Impact of Birthing, Practices on Breastfeeding: Protecting the Mother and Baby Continuum

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Finally someone dares to declare that having a medicalized birth is not the norm, just as bottlefeeding isn't the norm... I'm a family physician with a breastfeeding clinic since 1996, and I had begun noticing notable differences in the types of lactation problems between the midwife-assisted births and the gynecologist-assisted ones. Unfortunately, women are not aware of this and they themselves request epidurals for pain-free births. Little do they know that they are harvesting a multitude of related post-partum & breastfeeding problems, for themselves AND baby. Once this is explained to them, they often realise the connections and wish they had known... This is a book every practitioner doing deliveries should read. We really ought to assist laboring women with non-pharmacological pain-relieving techniques, not just medications.

This is an excellent book for lactation care providers and childbirth educators. It explains how each birth intervention (epidural, c-section, IV drugs, episiotomies, etc) affect breastfeeding.

This book is a must read for those that care about breastfeeding, birth, babies and mothers. An easy and yet infomative read.

This is an amazing book, very important for midwives, OBs, doctors, and anyone involved in birth (moms too!). Well written, well researched, has an international and multicultural perspective. A second edition by the same publisher (under the same title) has come out now which gives almost no credit to the original author who passed away a few years after the original was written. I haven't read the second edition entirely, but a lot of it is copied from the first edition. Can't imitate a masterpiece!

This is not a book you'll curl up with in one afternoon. The writing is a bit technical and dry, so it's better read in increments.

BUT... if you want to re-examine what you know about childbirth and breastfeeding, this book is rock solid. The book is straight-forward and factual. It will give you food for thought that you will digest over a long period.

This book will affect you as a practitioner. I highly recommend it.