Book reviews

Breastfeeding for Beginners

The book title says it all really.

This is a great book for first time breastfeeders. Just the right amount of information and you have the security that, coming from the NCT, its going to be accurate, research based information.

Every woman coming to breastfeeding for the first time should be issued this book in pregnancy - it covers not only the common things like positioning and how milk is made but also common problems too.

Review reproduced with permission from Jenny Lesley

Babycalming

If you have read other parenting tomes and found them very offputting for their patronising style and ritualistic practices with no evidence base to support their advice then be reassured, this is not at all of the same ilk.

Caroline Deacon is an NCT breastfeeding counsellor who has researched her book very thoroughly and gives very good reasons for the suggestions she gives.

And they are suggestions, no "how to raise the perfect being and still have time to polish your nails" just good, common sense, explanations and the feeling that you are the one who gets to decide how to parent your baby.

Its brilliant, do buy it.

Review reproduced with permission from Jenny Lesley