Product Description: For more than a decade, BESTFEEDING has been recognized by midwives, doctors, and nursing mothers as the definitive word on breastfeeding. The culmination of 60-plus years of hands-on experience from three dedicated and internationally respected authors, this newly updated classic blends academic knowledge, clinical expertise, and practical skills to educate first-time and experienced mothers alike...read more

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Product Description: For over a decade, this classic book has served as the resource for mothers and midwives committed to breastfeeding. Through thoughtfully written text and detailed illustration, the authors cover issues ranging from how to establish breastfeeding in the early days of a child's life to how to resolve problems that may arise during breastfeeding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines modern childbirth practices, arguing that current hospital and medical procedures interfere with and unnecessarily complicate the birth process, and discusses available alternatives to hospital childbirth

Describes different approaches to childbirth and their advantages and disadvantages

A photographic diary chronicling the changes a woman experiences during her childbearing year.

Product Description: For more than a decade, BESTFEEDING has been recognized by midwives, doctors, and nursing mothers as the definitive word on breastfeeding. The culmination of 60-plus years of hands-on experience from three dedicated and internationally respected authors, this newly updated classic blends academic knowledge, clinical expertise, and practical skills to educate first-time and experienced mothers alike...read more

Looks at the changing attitudes towards adoption, criticizes the adoption procedures of the past, and offers advice on creating humane adoptions

Answers common questons about a child's self-esteem, paternal bonding, sleep problems, discipline, education, responsibility, divorce, stepparenting, and sexual attitudes

A study of the adoption process focuses on the birth mother, the child, and the adoptive parents, based on a series of six case studies and analysis by a leading adoption lawyer

The author describes in pictures and brief narrative her feelings during and reactions to her pregnancy from the days following conception through the first months after the birth of her daughter