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Milk, Money, and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding

10 best books like Milk, Money, and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding (Naomi Baumslag): The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning, Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, What Mothers Do: especially when it looks like nothing, Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping, Adventures in Tandem Nursing: Breastfeeding During Pregnancy and Beyond, Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, Three in a Bed: The Benefits of Sleeping with Your Baby, Birth and Breastfeeding: Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth, So That's What They're For!: The Definitive Breastfeeding Guide, Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning
AuthorWilliam Sears
ISBN0316779245
A fully revised edition of the Dr. Sears guide to breastfeeding, a perennial favorite for parents for nearly two decades.

From pediatric experts Martha Sears, R.N., and William Sears, M.D., a comprehensive, reassuring, authoritative information on:


How to get started breastfeeding,...
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
AuthorJennifer Block
ISBN0738210730
In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery - the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven...
What Mothers Do: especially when it looks like nothing
AuthorNaomi Stadlen
ISBN0749926201
'I wish I'd had this book years ago - to show to bosses who didn't understand, to friends who couldn't grasp why I was permanently tired, and even to myself - to know that I wasn't the only one who wished for an extra eight hours in the day.' Anne Diamond, television presenter, mother. 'Naomi Stadlen writes...
Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping
AuthorJames J. McKenna
ISBN1930775342
I liked that this book had very clear safety guidelines for co-sleeping, including illustrated do's and don'ts. I felt that there was an even-handed approach, advocating room-sharing vs. bed-sharing where risk factors exist. And they did a fine job of evaluating the recommendations against co-sleeping...
Adventures in Tandem Nursing: Breastfeeding During Pregnancy and Beyond
AuthorHilary Flower
ISBN0912500972
There is no doubt about it�when breastfeeding and pregnancy overlap, the questions abound! In this, the first full-length book ever on the topic of tandem nursing, Hilary Flower gives comprehensive and in-depth answers to a wide range of questions related to breastfeeding during pregnancy and...
Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
AuthorNorma Jane Bumgarner
ISBN0912500522
This book didn't give me as much as I'd hoped for in terms of helpful, practical advice for nursing a toddler—when it came down to it, most of her advice was either stuff I'd already figured out for myself (nursing a 19-month-old, here) or stuff that didn't directly apply to my situation (for instance,...
Three in a Bed: The Benefits of Sleeping with Your Baby
AuthorDeborah Jackson
ISBN0747565759
Fantastic book full of well-researched information on the history of co-sleeping and it's loss of popularity from the Victorian ages. The author is a great advocate for bringing this practice back and I fully suppport her opinions.

The reason I did not give the book 5 stars is the following:...
Birth and Breastfeeding: Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth
AuthorMichel Odent
ISBN1902636481
At a time when pleas for the ?humanization? of childbirth are fashionable, the author suggests, rather, that we should first accept our ?mammalian? condition and give priority to the woman's need for privacy and to feel secure. The activity of the intellect, the use of language, and many cultural beliefs...
So That's What They're For!: The Definitive Breastfeeding Guide
AuthorJanet Tamaro
The Critics Love So That's What They're For!

"A practical, light-hearted, and humorous look at breastfeeding...that's full of factual information and down-to-earth answers to the universal questions all breastfeeding mothers have." --La Leche League

"This light-hearted...
Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
AuthorNancy Wainer Cohen
ISBN0897890272
The bible of cesarean prevention. Wall Street Journal A landmark event, which will change the course of obstetric care by giving parents the informtion they need to make the decisions that are best for their own families. Comprehensive, highly readable, sensitive . . . should be read by everyone who...
Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
AuthorMarsden Wagner
ISBN0520245962
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers...
Rediscovering Birth
AuthorSheila Kitzinger
ISBN0743412737
Bestselling author Sheila Kitzinger, the world's foremost birth educator and activist, explores the universal experience of pregnancy and childbirth in this splendid new book, beautifully illustrated with hundreds of photographs. With an intimate, informative style that both enlightens and...
Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience
AuthorRicki Lake
ISBN0446538132
The national C-section rate is at an all-time high of 31 percent. Are all these C-sections necessary, or are some of them done simply for the sake of convenience? Inductions seem to be the norm, but are they always needed? Today, expectant mothers are often left feeling powerless, as their instincts...
Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature
AuthorHenci Goer
ISBN0897894278
Anyone working to improve the childbearing experience and help women avoid unnecessary intervention has encountered numerous obstetric myths or old doctors' tales. And while the evidence in the medical literature may be solidly, often unequivocably, against whatever the doctor said, without...
Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic and Birth
AuthorSuzanne Arms
ISBN0890876339
Published in 1994 (it seems to have also been published in 1997 with a different subtitle, but the copy I read was from ’94), this book is out of date in some respects; however, much of the information it contains is timeless. I would be interested to see what an updated version would say (this is itself...
Birth as an American Rite of Passage
AuthorRobbie Davis-Floyd
ISBN0520229320
Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface...
The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business
AuthorGabrielle Palmer
As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nationand thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.
Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the...
The Breastfeeding Answer Book
AuthorLa Leche League International
ISBN0912500921
From descriptions of how the breast works to nursing multiple babies and weaning to various drug interactions, this is a complete resource guide to breastfeeding and has proven necessary for those who want to help mothers breastfeed. Complete information on pumps and other products, new milk storage...
Gentle Birth Choices
AuthorBarbara Harper
ISBN1594770670
Birth as every woman would like it to be

• Recommended by Lamaze International as one of the top ten books for pregnant women and their families

• Includes a 45-minute DVD of six live gentle births

• More than 32,000 copies sold of the original edition

New parents...
Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness
AuthorAviva Romm
ISBN0892819308
Provides essential advice for adjusting to the many challenges facing women during the first year after giving birth.

• Offers practical tips for finding balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self.

•...
Active Birth : The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
AuthorJanet Balaskas
ISBN1558320385
Janet Balaskas led a movement of women who refused to give birth lying down. She has been teaching women about "active birth" ever since. In this updated and Americanized guide, Balaskas explains how to prepare for and experience a truly natural birth. She leads the pregnant woman through yoga-based...
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