Readers of Breastfeeding 1-2-3 favor these five books:
1. The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Child’s Sleep (Pantley)
2. The Nursing Mother’s Companion: Revised Edition
3. The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
4. Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
5. We Like to Nurse

This light-hearted book is scheduled for release in March 2008 but is available for pre-order now. If These Boobs Could Talk: A Little Humor to Pump Up the Breastfeeding Mom is suggested as a baby shower or new baby gift. The book description says, “In this humorous tribute to the lactating legacy of breastfeeding moms, Shannon Payette Seip and Adrienne Hedger deliver more than 50 games, trivia questions, quizzes, doodling activities, mock advice columns, and quirky top ten lists on the subject of breastfeeding. Full-color cartoon illustrations add to the fun.”

~ The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program encourages breastfeeding through the offer of pumping supplies, support from breastfeeding peer counselors, and incentives to breastfeed (breastfeeding mothers who do not require infant formula are given extra allotments of food). Tanya at the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog reports that WIC is in danger of having to cut over half a million families due to a potential lack of funding.
~ Author Sean Taylor refused to accept the prize money for the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize 2007 after he learned about Nestlé’s unethical marketing practices. Thanks to Bliss-Breastfeeding for the heads-up on that …read more

Welcome to the latest Carnival of Breastfeeding, where we have gathered together a collection of reviews of books and videos related to pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and parenting. To read all of the reviews, check out the links at the end of this post!
Before I could read Baby Matters, Revised 2nd Edition: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby, two breastfeeding women raved to me about the book. “Most doctors just tell you what they believe about baby care. This author tells you what she thinks and why. It has all the hard science behind attachment …read more

This updated list reveals the top breastfeeding book sales through Breastfeeding 1-2-3 over the last year.
1. The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Child’s Sleep by Elizabeth Pantley. This is by far the number one best seller for Breastfeeding 1-2-3 readers. That pleases me very much given my feelings against crying-it-out.
The next three books tied for second place.
2. The Nursing Mother’s Companion: Revised Edition by Kathleen Huggins. You can read my interview with Kathleen Huggins here.
3. Mothering Your Nursing Toddler by Norma Jane Bumgarner.
4. We Like to Nurse …read more

Earlier this week I reviewed Andi Silverman’s new book Mama Knows Breast: A Beginner’s Guide to Breastfeeding. Today Andi answers questions about her own experience with breastfeeding and the process of writing her book.
Did you have any difficulties breastfeeding?
My biggest problem with breastfeeding was that I had no idea what I was doing when our first son was born. I realized I knew more about my stroller, car seat and crib than I did about my boobs and feeding a baby.
Even though I had some parenting books and had taken a breastfeeding class, I often felt at a …read more

I was really happy to hear that there’s a new book coming out this fall on the question of whether or not to have your child vaccinated. Vaccination is a hot topic among my breastfeeding friends, with some women opting to have their children fully vaccinated and some women opting to decline vaccinations altogether. Robert W. Sears, MD, FAAP wrote The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child to inform parents about the pros and cons of different vaccines. The publisher describes the book as follows:
Each chapter will be devoted to a disease/vaccine pair and offer a comprehensive …read more

Looking for a fun way to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week August 1 through 7, 2007, without having to plan or attend an event? Play along with My Baby and More for the 2nd Annual World Breastfeeding Week Book Release Challenge for the whole month of August! I’d heard of “releasing” books before — registering a book you’ve enjoyed at BookCrossing.com, labeling the book and then leaving it in a conspicuous place for another reader to discover. The hope is that the new reader will also enjoy the book enough to leave a journal entry at the BookCrossing registration and “release” …read more

Karen Kerkhoff Gromada recently released a third revised edition of her book Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More! Ms. Gromada is a long-time La Leche League leader, registered nurse and lactation consultant. In addition to writing Mothering Multiples she co-authored Keys to Parenting Twins, Keys to Parenting Multiples, and Care of the Multiple-Birth Family: Postpartum through Infancy.
B123: What are some of the significant changes and additions you made to this revised edition?
KKG: Hmm, there have been revisions to just about everything – every chapter includes some changes and updates. Amazing how the science of lactation and “standard” …read more