Spilled Milk: Breastfeeding Adventures and Advice from Less-Than Perfect Moms

by Andy Steiner

Book Overview

Wildly funny tales and practical wisdom from the author's and other women's breastfeeding experiences-to reassure readers that there is no one way to be a great breastfeeder In this perfect antidote... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594860408
• ISBN13: 9781594860409
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Yet another great breast feeding book!

I totally reccomend this book to anyone wanting to read about breast feeding and be amused doing so. She has a way of making you the reader understand that it's ok not to be perfect at it and that everyone can learn how to be a successful breast feeder.

Great book for first-time breastfeeding moms!

While my baby isn't due for another 3 months yet, I plan to breastfeed and am looking for all the helpful advice I can get. This book provides the most common-sense and enjoyable reading I've found on the complicated subject of breastfeeding. It is very funny and "down to earth." As someone who is trying my best to prepare myself for motherhood and is also an admitted perfectionist about many things, I needed a book like this to help me keep everything in perspective. Steiner is very reassuring and encouraging and offers a lot more helpful, practical advice than many of the other breastfeeding books out there. Plus she provides a great bibliography at the end for further reading! I know I will be rereading this book when my baby is born and I would highly recommend it to other new mothers.

Just what I needed!

As a new mother, I purchased this book because one of the advertisements stated 'it is for those of us who think we are doing it (breastfeeding) wrong, which is all of us.' After I received the book, I couldn't put it down and once finished, I started it over again and again. Yes, I am reading it for the third time now. It is extremely motivating and forgiving. You usually see one or the other, motivating or forgiving, but in this case you got both perspectives. The book is definitely pro-breastfeeding, but it also provides testimonials of women who for one reason or another were unable to breastfeed and it shows that is ok too. I was touched by the "weaning" chapter with all the love and sweetness only us mothers will understand. I already bought two more copies and sent them to new mothers. The book really made me feel lucky and special to breastfeed my baby.

Much-needed, well done, and a wonderful read

Why aren't there more books on breastfeeding? Spilled Milk fills a baffling literary gap. Steiner writes beautifully and inclusively about a complicated, highly personal subject. Mothering (parenting) infants and small children can be isolating and anxiety provoking and this book reduces those problems. I have given it as a gift to 2 new moms.

This book is informative, reassuring, and a fun read

I just finished Spilled milk. I wish it were by my side three years ago when my breastfeeding adventures began. I'm going to give it to a friend who is pregnant with her first child. The author gives an honest look at breastfeeding, from sore nipples to mother's guilt to embarrassing public nursing tales to what happens to your breasts when it is all done. It is a compilation of breastfeeding from many women's perspectives. Women with many different perspectives. I highly recommend it to anyone who is thinking of breastfeeding or is in the throws of breastfeeding and needs to understand it isn't always a bowl of cherries. In the end, the book applauds any attempts you make to breastfeed and refrains from making you feel guilty about any decisions you may make to quit.