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Title: The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers : The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America by M.D. Jack Newman, Teresa Pitman ISBN: 0-7615-2996-9 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 10 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (33 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good info, but some is misleading
Comment: I learned a lot from this book about formula, the benefits of staying away from it, and correct latching and positioning at the breast, plus good problem-solving info. However, I found it difficult to find information on how to make breastfeeding work in a variety of family situations, for instance, not very much information on going back to work, although it is mentioned briefly, (I got the impression Dr. Newman thinks all good moms stay home). He responds to real concerns and real issues sometimes by trivializing the problem. For example, he clearly supports co-sleeping and thinks it is no big deal for babies to wake frequently at night, even when they are older. Tell that to two working parents who are exhausted by constant night wakings! And some people really do not want to share their bed with a child, and they should not be critized for that. Adults need time together and time alone to be a couple in order to be good parents, which is rarely addressed. I think he also makes too big a deal of using a bottle to give expressed breastmilk. My baby has always been able to switch back and forth to bottles of breastmilk at the sitter and to my breast at home, no need for finger feeding or tubes. Just take some of that stuff with a grain of salt and know that each baby is different. I still think the book is a must-have for pregnant women planning to nurse, and remains a great resource as you continue to nurse your baby and toddler.
Rating: 4
Summary: Informative but strident
Comment: This book is vastly informative, with enormous breadth and depth. It was truly quite helpful. It is quite understandable how Dr. Newman became such a breastfeeding partisan; medical professionals and formula manufacturers are doing every bit as much harm as he claims. But Newman is a partisan who preaches incessantly to his own congregation. His prose style is non-stop pep rally, and every paragraph has a political slant. And occasionally, his hard-core breastfeeding-at-all-costs advocacy crosses into the absurd: in one example in the book he mildly chastises a woman for failing to breastfeed her baby when she had taken another injured child to the emergency room (the mother had left the infant with a trusted friend, who spoon-fed the baby expressed breast milk for 5 hours). This purism can only undercut Newman's credibility.
And it prevents the book from being as much a comfort to women struggling with breastfeeding issues as it could be. Yes, yes, yes, we are trying to find ways to breastfeed as well as possible, as long as possible. But for us parents, this is not a political issue at the moment of a breastfeeding difficulty: it is a family medical issue, and Newman's advice would be more welcome if it did not sound like it came from a political pamphlet.
My wife and I wish very much to breastfeed our infant. But there are women who cannot produce enough breastmilk, and it appears my wife is one of them, as a result of breast reduction surgery when she was a teenager. Newman's book discusses this situation, but veers from a small bit of practical advice back to bullet-spitting political diatribe just as fast as it can.
I appreciate Newman's partisanship and work around the world tremendously; the man has directly helped thousands of babies and mothers thrive, in developed and poor countries. And I am glad when any doctor can express any emotion openly. Better the informed anger of a partisan than the cold ignorant indifference of a "treat-em-and-steet-em" medical automaton.
But right this minute, as my wife and I wrestle with ways to augment milk supply and keep our baby healthy, I would have appreciated it if his book and on-line advice tempered his righteous anger with a bit more interpersonal empathy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Giving birth? Take this book to the Hospital!!
Comment: As a childbirth educator, I hear lots of stories about how well-meaning doctors and nurses unwittingly sabotage mothers' efforts to breastfeed their babies. This book addresses how hospitals, doctors and nurses and routines can mess up the nursing relationship, and gives suggestions on how to avoid these problems as well as scientific evidence to support these suggestions.
Dr. Newman is strident in his promotion of breastfeeding, but I think this is necessary. There are so many obstacles placed in front of breastfeeding that need to come down!!
Don't leave home without it!
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