How to Succeed in Breastfeeding Without Really Trying, Or Ten Steps to Laugh Your Way Through

THE TEN STEPS......Page 10
Dedication (from Paulina Shur)......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1 Choose Nursing Over Nurseries (while pregnant, think breastfeeding)!......Page 15
To Breastfeed or Not To Breastfeed?......Page 16
THE TOP TEN REASONS FOR A MOTHER TO BREASTFEED:......Page 17
THE TOP TEN REASONS FOR A BABY TO BE BREASTFED:......Page 19
THE TOP REASONS FOR A FATHER TO HAVE A BREASTFED BABY:......Page 21
The Breast Basics: A Little Biology Never Hurts......Page 22
What’s in a Rose (or in a Breast)......Page 25
Formula Companies Compete with Breast Milk in a Different Way......Page 27
From Breasts to Ears: Connect the Dots for Your Tots......Page 32
IN SUMMARY:......Page 34
TOP TEN WAYS TO PREPARE TO BREASTFEED DURING PREGNANCY:......Page 35
2 Become a Lioness (and fight common sabotages in the hospital-jungle)!......Page 37
The Life of a Lioness:......Page 40
PHYSIOLOGICAL JAUNDICE......Page 49
ABO AND Rh INCOMPATIBILITIES, GALACTOSEMIA, AND OTHER RARE ENTITIES......Page 50
IN SUMMARY:......Page 51
The Life of a Mother (a lactation consultant story):......Page 57
3 Survive Getting Eaten Up (and solve feeding confusions)!......Page 59
HERE IS THE BEST REPLACEMENT WE COULD FIND:......Page 61
But Where is the Milk?......Page 62
To use a pacifier or to become one?......Page 65
Other mammals eat less often.......Page 66
Then Again, There is the Cluster Feed!......Page 67
The Nipple Problems......Page 69
The Quitting Dilemma......Page 73
4 Regress to a Pre-School Level (it is all about pee and poop)!......Page 76
How do I count again?......Page 78
The Color of Madness: You Can’t Believe It Until You See It!......Page 81
5 Shape-up at Baby Boot Camp (the first six weeks postpartum)!......Page 85
Baby Boot Camp Instruction......Page 86
Baby Boot Camp Diet......Page 87
Baby Boot Camp Fitness......Page 91
When Nothing Helps: The Postpartum Blues......Page 97
What Maternal Baby Bonding Is Really All About......Page 98
6 Strut Your Stuff (in the face of the general public)!......Page 101
How to Breastfeed in Public Without Losing Your Sense of Humor......Page 105
The HER-story of Breastfeeding......Page 107
Nursing in a Classroom?......Page 113
Special Circumstances When It Helps to Breastfeed......Page 115
7 Fight the “Yottle” in Your Baby’s Bottle (with the help of Dr. Seuss)!......Page 117
8 Sleep Like a Baby (or with a baby)!......Page 127
And Now a Word on the Myth of Sleeping Through the Night......Page 136
The Secret Caveman Sleep Method: One More Alternative......Page 137
All Roads Lead to Sleep......Page 138
BED-SHARING PRECAUTIONS*......Page 139
9 Pump It Up (without losing your sanity)!......Page 141
Thus, it doesn’t take a guideline to promote breastfeeding – it takes a real maternity leave. We need a new motto in America:......Page 143
Pumping Safety 101: WASH, PUMP, LABEL, KEEP, PLACE......Page 148
The Pumping Diaries: A Week in the Life......Page 149
Heroic efforts......Page 153
10 Wean Like a Winner (and toast to making it through)!......Page 157
A Time to Wean......Page 163
First Food (Mush) Fun Time......Page 164
The Weaning Diet (A Variant of the Breastfeeding Diet)......Page 166
TOP FIVE BREAKFAST OPTIONS THAT YOU AND YOUR BABY CAN SHARE......Page 167
TOP FIVE LUNCH OPTIONS......Page 168
TOP FIVE DINNER OPTIONS......Page 169
A Still Breastfeeding Mother’s Story......Page 172
References:......Page 177
Acknowledgement:......Page 178