Breastfeeding an Older Child and Weaning with Love
I have two beautiful girls. They are now aged six-and-a-half, and nearly four. I always believed I would breastfed my babies when I had them. My mother … Read more
I have two beautiful girls. They are now aged six-and-a-half, and nearly four. I always believed I would breastfed my babies when I had them. My mother … Read more
On July 26th this year, the day my little girl Jessica turned 11 months, she awoke with a bad cold. She refused her morning breastfeed and later in the morning after one small nursing began refusing every time I offered her the breast. I was surprised, as up until that day, she had breastfed happily several times a day and often once or twice during the night as well. By that night I knew something was wrong as she was unhappy and crying a lot and I suspected an ear infection. I was expressing milk and offered her that in a cup. She was otherwise drinking water … Read more
Before my son was born I attended a ‘preparing for parenthood’ course with my husband. It strongly advocated ‘parent controlled feeding and sleeping’ or scheduled … Read more
When I had my first baby, I had already decided to give breastfeeding a go. But the main focus for me during pregnancy was coping … Read more
Nursing Mother, Working Mother In revising this edition of her classic text, Gale Pryor (daughter of Karen) has been joined by another equally well-known US … Read more
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding 8th Edition La Leche League International’s iconic manual has been through many incarnations in its previous seven editions, but this eighth … Read more
Attached at the Heart is written by the co-founders of Attachment Parenting International (API), who began their parenting with LLL and first learned about attachment … Read more