- Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Revised Edition
- The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding Your Baby Before and After You Return to Work
- By Gale Pryor and Kathleen Huggins
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First published in 1997, this award-winning breastfeeding guide for mothers who work outside the home includes information on the benefits of breastfeeding for working moms and their babies, how to ensure early breastfeeding success, how to choose the right pump in every situation, securing lactation space and respect at the workplace, instructing childcare providers on feeding pumped breast milk, and continuing breastfeeding even when a job requires business travel.
Updates to the revised edition include the legal rights of breastfeeding mothers, new research on working moms and infant attachment, and new information by best-selling author and lactation expert Kathleen Huggins on breast pumps and pumping that includes instructions for childcare providers on feeding babies pumped breast milk and how working moms can maintain milk production. The book also includes helpful new illustrations, making it even more appealing and accessible. Mothers need guidance and support to combine breastfeeding with their working lives, and the reassuring and informative revised edition of Nursing Mother, Working Mother assists them at every step.For more information, visit http://www.nursingmotherscompanion.com.
Book Details
- Paperback, $12.95
ISBN 978-1-55832-331-5
- Total Pages: 256 pg.
- Trim Size: 6 x 9
From the Press Room
Praise
“Gale Pryor writes an in-depth and passionate book for and about the nursing, working mother. Her book is much more than the title suggests. Not only is it very supportive of working women, but it also provides the basic information needed for any woman to successfully breastfeed her baby.”
—Journal Section on Women’s Health
“Pryor demonstrates the importance of breastfeeding for both baby and mother. A how-to book from a mother who herself has accomplished the difficult but rewarding combination of working and nursing.”
—Viola Lennon, Co-Founder of La Leche League
“Gale Pryor continues the extraordinary Pryor family tradition of helping women to successfully breastfeed their babies under any circumstance. She writes with clarity, showing the logic of breastfeeding for not only giving a baby the ideal food, but for ideally mothering a baby as well — even when mom is gone for part of the day. Most of all, her voice-of-experience practical advice makes it clear that a mom doesn’t always have to decide between a baby she adores and a job she loves.”
—Diana Korte, author of A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
“I wish I had written this book. Easy to read and empowering, Pryor makes clear how, not just why, a mother will combine breastfeeding and paid employment. A ‘must read’ for any woman considering such a combination of experiences.“
— Kathleen Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC, Private Lactation Consultant
“Nursing Mother, Working Mother provides a road map for successful mothering. Drawing on material from evolutionary biology, medical research, as well as her own experience with two children, Gale Pryor explains how breastfeeding is not only physiologically and psychologically beneficial for the baby, but how it provides different, but altogether positive, benefits for the nursing mother. In a graceful tone of respect and understanding, she offers detailed and practical advice so that every mother who wants to can return to work with confidence that she and her baby will maintain their special intimacy.“
—Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, author of Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century
“Written as only one who has done it could write it…, this book nurtures the new mother and teaches her how to manage what many, perhaps even her doctor, say can’t be done.”
—William Sears, M.D., and Martha Sears, R.N.