The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk: Foreword by Martha Sears, RN

Diana West · Lisa Marasco

Dec 2008 · McGraw Hill Professional

About this ebook

Concerned about making enough milk for your baby? Wondering how to make more? Two lactation experts are here to help.

Separate fact from fiction with help from this comprehensive book about improving low milk supply. Written by two leading experts who have been there themselves and officially recommended by La Leche League International, The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk incorporates the latest research and discoveries about causes of low milk supply, the way your body makes milk, and how babies contribute to your milk production. Best of all, you'll find valuable suggestions for both time-honored and innovative ways to make more milk.

Learn the facts about:

• Determining if baby is really getting enough milk
• Supplementing without decreasing your supply
• Maximizing the amount of milk you can make
• Identifying the causes of your low supply
• Increasing your supply with the most effective methods, including pumping, herbs, medications, foods, and alternative therapies
• Making more milk when you return to work, exclusively pump, have a premie or multiples, relactate, or induce lactation

Ratings and reviews

This book is excellent. As a breastfeeding mom, la leche league leader and registered lactation consultant I can not say enough good things about this book. Why? Because it speaks the truth. It answers questions many others books don't. It is easy to read. And it is a book that you can read while pregnant, when you nursing or after your nursing days/years are over. This will help any mom who has gulit or anger about how breastfeeding did or didn't work out. This is the book to help you resolve any current or past breastfeeding expereince. Read it. Cry (in relief or anger). Move forward (as a better informed mom).

About the author

Diana West, IBCLC, is a board certified lactation consultant in private practice and author of Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery.

Lisa Marasco, M.A., IBCLC, is a board certified lactation consultant both in private practice and for WIC and contributing author to the Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice.