Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding, Second Edition

BUT... if you want to re-examine what you know about childbirth and breastfeeding, this book is rock solid. The book is straight-forward and factual. It will give you food for thought that you will digest over a long period.

This book will affect you as a practitioner. I highly recommend it.


Reasons to focus on natural childbirth!   November 19, 2003
Anne McSween,MD, IBCLC, RLC (Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada)
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Finally someone dares to declare that having a medicalized birth is not the norm, just as bottlefeeding isn't the norm... I'm a family physician with a breastfeeding clinic since 1996, and I had begun noticing notable differences in the types of lactation problems between the midwife-assisted births and the gynecologist-assisted ones. Unfortunately, women are not aware of this and they themselves request epidurals for pain-free births. Little do they know that they are harvesting a multitude of related post-partum & breastfeeding problems, for themselves AND baby. Once this is explained to them, they often realise the connections and wish they had known... This is a book every practitioner doing deliveries should read. We really ought to assist laboring women with non-pharmacological pain-relieving techniques, not just medications.