The Nursing Mother's Problem Solver

by Claire Martin

Book Overview

Finally Answers to your most urgent questions in an easy-to-use format
Based on questions posed by thousands of real mothers, this A-to-Z guide has a practical, realistic view of how nursing fits into a modern woman's life.
First-time mothers and breastfeeding veterans will find answers to more than 300 questions -- from the most common to the most particular.
How to know the effect of what you eat and drink on your breastmilk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684857847
• ISBN13: 9780684857848
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great for Needing Answers NOW!

This is my favorite breastfeeding book. While the others I have are good, too, they have a lot of prose and spend pages on a topic. This one gives me the answers NOW.For example, I prepared to nurse my son one day and started leaking green milk! I was afraid to nurse him, unsure of whether he should drink it. Baby was crying by this point and I wanted the answer now. I looked in the other books and found no help. I looked in the index of this one and voila! Green milk is in there. One paragraph of reading told me that he could drink it and I was on my way. Crying stopped, crisis overcome. I love this book! It is arranged by topic, alphabetically. So you can look up colic under "c", green milk under "g", etc. And the topics are in plain english. Very nice. It is also cross-referenced, so if one short paragraph doesn't quite solve your problem, perhaps a related topic will. There are other books (must get "The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book...") that are nice to read in your third trimester, but this is the one to have in your bag when you go to the hospital and to keep by your rocker-glider when you get home. It really is worth every dime.

Wealth of sources

As the mother of a 35-month-old boy who still enjoys nursing, I've read several books and chapters of books devoted to nursing. I've also benefitted from the advice of well-informed La Leche League leaders. I wish, however, that Claire Martin's book, The Nursing Mother's Problem Solver, was available before I gave birth. Martin covers a large array of situations, drawing from a wide variety of excellent sources. The easy-to-use format is a blessing for weary parents of newborns and I was pleased to read so many common-sense (and fact-based) answers to questions that arise at various stages of a nursing child's life.

Most Valuable Baby Gift Received

I sent this book to a friend who was expecting her first baby. Her email to me follows: "That book on breast feeding was been the most valuable item in the house since we got home from the hospital the second time - it has been SO helpful! Thank you very much for sending it....I had no idea how much I was going to need it. I foolishly thought that breast feeding would be like "falling off a log," but I now know better. Wanted to let you know that your gift is getting a LOT of use, and saving us many calls to the doctor's office. It is so great to have questions answered right away, especially in the middle of the night."

Better than the "What to Expect When" series!

Finally a book about nursing that doesn't waste time congratulating you on making the choice to nurse, but rather spends the time focusing on real questions and problems that face nursing moms! I found the book incredibly helpful even as a practiced nursing mom and wished that I had had it available when not-so-practiced. The format is easy to follow, and the content clear, concise, and REAL. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that is even considering nursing.

Fantastic even for a 3rd-time nurser ...

As a third-time nursing mom I found this book to be invaluable. Its format was logical and easy to use. The research was more extensive than any other book I have read on nursing. It answered pressing questions immediately and fully. Finally I enjoyed its humor and the light approach to common challenges! Jean Kirshner