Nursing Your Baby by Karen Pryor

Nursing Your Baby by Karen Pryor

For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdomand warmth of Nursing Your Baby. Now authors Karen Pryor and her daughter Gale Pryor have revised and updated their classic guide for today's generation of women. New information includes:

• Up-to-date studies on health benefits for breastfed infantsand breastfeeding mothers
• Tips for getting the best start on breastfeeding during thefirst hours, weeks, and months after birth
• Breastfeeding advice for working mothers
• Legal rights as a nursing mother
• Choosing and using a breast pump
• How fathers and families can support new nursing mothers

With its unique blend of support, science, and research, this classic guide will continue to encourage mothers to nurse their babies as long as they both desire.

Gale Pryor is a health and development-focused science journalist and editor. Her work has appeared in a variety of parenting publications as well as corporate and healthcare marketing. She and her mother, Karen Pryor, co-authored the best-selling Nursing Your Baby, which is now in its fourth edition.