The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning

by Kathleen Huggins

Book Overview

Everything a nursing mother needs to know about weaning by breastfeeding expert, Kathleen Huggins. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558320652
• ISBN13: 9781558320659
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Title is misleading

I was interested in exploring weaning and felt like this book encourages mothers not to.

The Best Weaning book I have read

I love this book. It gives information on weaning your child if you decide to wean at 2 months or 4 years. What I love the most is it gives the benifits of breastfeeding for each age group as well. I would recomend this book if you were ready to wean or if you are feeling discuraged or burt out and need a reason to continue to breastfed.

A Book about Breast feeding problems and solutions

This book should be treated as a breast feeding woman's Bible. The book encourages breast feeding an older toddler and at the same time encourages a sensitive weaning process. I breast feed a 2 year old and this book has given all the support I needed until now. Even though the title says "guide to weaning" I think this book should be read by breast feeding mothers who wants to continue to do so.

This book anticipated my ambivalence about weaning.

I'm grateful that I found this book. I was contemplating weaning for the wrong reasons. I really wasn't ready to wean. Now, after reading the book, my batteries are recharged and I'm going to hang in there for a while longer. However, it offers practical advice for when the time comes.

sensitive support and accurate information

This may not be the book for you if you truly don't want to nurse, but if you are a *nursing mother* who wants or needs to wean as the title suggests, then this thoughtful book can help you to thoroughly examine your options when faced with this sometimes difficult transition. With sensitivity that only a nursing mother herself could offer, Kathleen Huggins does an excellent job of explaining the how-to's of weaning, but more importantly she discusses how to do it lovingly, gently, and respectfully of the child's needs, as well as the mothers. This book is for women who value the nursing relationship and want the best for their child. If you are merely looking for an excuse not to nurse, or for cleverly veiled rationalizations for denying your children the most beautiful, most nutritionally, imunologically, and emotionally superior way to nurture and feed your child, buy Bottlefeeding Without Guilt (now renamed When Breastfeeding is Not an Option) instead.