Nursing Your Baby: Revised [Mass Market Paperback]

Karen Pryor (Author)

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About the Author

Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist with an international reputation in two fields, marine mammal biology and behavioral phsychology. She is a founder and leading proponent of "clicker training," a training system based on operant conditioning (isolate wanted behaviors and igrnore the unwanted) and the all-positive methods developed by marine mammal trainers. Clicker training is not in use world wide with dogs, cats, horses, birds, zoo animals, and increasingly with humans, in the teaching of sports and athletic performances and developing behaviors in autistics.

Pryor is the CEO of KCPT/Sunshine Books, Inc., a publishing, training product and Internet company. In addition to her bestselling Don't Shoot the Dog, Pryor wrote the catagory killer Nursing Your Baby (Simon & Schuster, more than 2 million copies in print) along with several other books and many scientific papers and pupular articles on learning and behavior. (see www.clickertaining.com)

Karen has three grown children and lives in Boston with two clicker-trained dogs and a clicker-trained cat.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (September 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671745484
• ISBN-13: 978-0671745486
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #777,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist with an international reputation in two fields, marine mammal biology and behavioral phsychology. She is a founder and leading proponent of "clicker training," a training system based on operant conditioning (isolate wanted behaviors and ignore the unwanted) and the all-positive methods developed by marine mammal trainers. Clicker training is now in use world wide with dogs, cats, horses, birds, zoo animals, and increasingly with humans, in the teaching of sports and athletic performances and developing behaviors in autistics.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is as good today as when I first read it in 1966!, September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nursing Your Baby: Revised (Mass Market Paperback)

I first read Karen Pryor's book while I was expecting my first child. There were very few books on nursing at that time. There weren't too many of us nursing mothers, either. This book was wonderful - full of info, but also inspirational. I gave it to other moms-to-be who were looking for support to breastfeed back then. Recently, when my daughter became pregnant with her first child, I came to Amazon just to see if was still available, more of a nostalgia trip. Not only did I find it, but I found that Karen's baby, like mine, had grown up and updated the book with precisely the info my daughter would be seeking about breastfeeding and working. Needless to say, I ordered it, re-read it to make sure that it was as wonderful as I had thought it, and gave it to my daughter. Her reaction in 1999 is the same as mine was 33 years ago. Thank you, Karen and Gayle!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most useful breastfeeding book I found, April 10, 2004

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This review is from: Nursing Your Baby: Revised (Mass Market Paperback)

I had a copy of the womanly art of breastfeeding and found it to be long on preaching the joys of breastfeeding and short on addressing real concerns and problems. This is the book I dogeared and referred to again and again. It is practical, friendly, and full of useful information I didn't find anywhere else. There is a long bibliography of sources at the back, but you also get the sense that you are being talked to by experienced realistic moms who are sure you can do this - much more helpful when you feel desperate at 2 AM in the first week than another lecture on how wonderful and easy this is supposed to be!

I nursed my first baby until he was 18 months old, after a very rocky start - took me three days to get him to nurse at all, and then it took 45 minutes to latch him on properly for a while after that! So I really appreciated any guide that admitted how hard it can be to start breastfeeding and gave a wide variety of practical advice on the real problems. I tossed a lot of popular books that carried on about how breastfeeding is easy and natural and wonderful - it was all that once we got over the hard part, but getting over the hard part was when I needed good advice and real facts!

Some of the unusual information included here - baby behavior, innate parent behavior, nursing frequency and patterns, how nursing changes as the baby develops, how to take good care of yourself physically and emotionally. There is a great chapter for working/pumping mothers, and even some advice on how to keep the house tidy enough so it doesn't depress you, with a minimum of effort. Also - getting your milk back when you had to stop nursing for a little while, nursing toddlers, tandem nursing, weaning, pretty much any breastfeeding topic you can think of seems to be covered.

The index is not great (you can't find 'thrush' or 'pain' in it, even though there is a section on yeast infections), but I read the whole book and didn't have much trouble finding what I needed in it after that. Several chapters deal with age specific information ('birth to six weeks' etc) which made it easy to look up problems I was having in that particular time period.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent comprehensive guide, March 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Nursing Your Baby: Revised (Mass Market Paperback)

I purchased several books on breastfeeding and found this one the most comprehensive and informative. A very thorough section on benefits of breastfeeding as well as practical information on how often and how much the baby should be nursing in the first 6 weeks, two to four months etc. There is also information on pumps, going back to work and more. Well written and documented. This was the first book I found that addressed all my issues and concerns with adequate detail.