Breastfeeding Success for Working Mothers

by Marilyn Grams

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932707149
• ISBN13: 9780932707147
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: National Capital Resources
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Yes you CAN do both.

I used this book with my first child when I was a resident in Family Medicine, working long hours. Her recommendations go beyond simply explaining how to effectively pump, etc. She gives some of the best advice I've seen for getting your milk to come in effectively and for ensuring that your supply stays good despite potentially long hours. I HIGHLY recommend this book.

Outstanding for 1985, and still very useful today

This book was written in 1985. Good breast pumps were probably nonexistent or very expensive and hard to find back then. So the chapter "Meals In Minutes" in this book concentrates on hand-expressing. Thankfully, it's not necessary to hand-express at work anymore - you can get a great automatic-cycling double-electric pump (Ameda Purely Yours or Medela Pump In Style) for much less than a year of formula would cost you. But even though the information on how to express milk is out of date, this book still provides excellent information on breastfeeding and how it can fit in to the life of a mother who works outside the home. I returned to work full time when our son was 10 weeks old, and the advice in this book was a great help to me.

The Best of the Working Mother's Breastfeeding books!

Reviewed this one by mistake - sorry...

The Best of the Working Mother's Breastfeeding books!

I've read a library full of books about breastfeeding - especially breastfeeding for working mothers. This one was by far the most useful. It was told in a very anecdotal way, and yet managed to convey more useful information than some of the other books I've read.Hand expression isn't for me, but even so most of her advice was really useful for me. I've been using a lot of her tips to keep the milk flowing freely. It's also a fun read.

Awesome book!

I didn't get this book until my twins were 3 months old. It saved my life! Her practical suggestions worked. I was able to ditch the pump and hand express, and ended up breastfeeding much longer than I thought I could (8 months!). I give this book to all my "new-mom" friends, and they have like-wise benefitted from Dr. Grams advice. There are other books that are more "technical" , but this is the one you will go back to again and again!