How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother
In this hilarious breast-feeding tell-all - the first of its kind - Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her rookie year as a nursing mother. She gives readers the skinny on important new mom essentials such as: chocolate, ice cream, sexy nursing bras, lactation consultants, breast pumps, mother's groups, play dates, Mommy and Me Yoga (not), and much more.
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In this hilarious breast-feeding tell-all - the first of its kind - Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her misadventures of new motherhood from the delivery of her daughter and her rookie days as a food source to the bittersweet end of weaning. This may be the information age, but so much of nursing still exists in the smart gal's rumor culture. Only after Shapiro shares her own nursing saga, complete with lactation consultants, chocolate binges, and a new use for green cabbage, do her friends and relatives confess to their own travails. Breast-feeding may be natural, but it is not always instinctual, and one doesn't have to go it alone. There are professionals who can make it work without pain, and it does get easier. Shapiro shares her newfound knowledge here, offering encouragement and advice on everything from choosing a pump to losing New Mom's Ass. Her endlessly enjoyable book addresses the rumors and breaks the taboos. Lisa Wood Shapiro is today's nursing mom: Nursing without a political agenda, tuning in to Sex & the City re-runs during feeding sessions, and sometimes buying generic diapers in order to stash away money for a proper leg wax. Whether or not your breasts have been involved in any world-saving activities, you won't be able to put this book down until you've read the last line. Publishers Weekly Like many mothers-to-be, Shapiro romanticized breastfeeding: "I envisioned tender mommy moments... nursing my baby." As a result, before daughter Sophie arrived, Shapiro followed the ignorance-is-bliss approach: "I remember thinking breastfeeding instruction was a waste of time. `It's the most natural thing in the world.' " Surprise, surprise when she discovers it's significantly harder than Brooke Shields makes it look in The Blue Lagoon. Mimicking the frank, humorous style of The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy, Shapiro relates, in frequently graphic detail, the perils of breastfeeding: tender breasts, engorgement, sore nipples, nursing injuries and cluster feedings. Over the course of Sophie's first year, Shapiro, with the help of lactation consultants and a nursing support group, becomes a breastfeeding advocate, proselytizing to new moms ("I found it difficult to fathom how easy nursing had gotten. My instinct was to spread the word"). Shapiro maintains an easy voice, though the book turns startlingly somber as she writes of September 11, 2001, which feels starkly out of place in this breezy memoir. Shapiro is this book's star, and Sophie (never mind husband Peter) plays a surprisingly small role. At times, Shapiro seems shallow, obsessing about her appearance and the commonness of her daughter's name. Mothers who formula feed will find little in this narrative; those who have struggled with breastfeeding, however, will laugh with empathy at Shapiro's tales of weight loss (or lack thereof), cabbage leaves (used to relieve engorgement) and the unending fluids that emerge from a nursing woman's body. Agent, JCA Literary Agency. (May) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Preface: The Most Natural Thing in the World and Brooke ShieldsxiPart 11.Silly Pregnant Lady52.Don't Bite Your Newborn203.The Panic and the Pain434.They Are Going to Reach Out and Touch You575.Get Yourself to a Breast-feeding Support Group706.Feed unto Others as You Yourself Would Like to Have Been Fed777.Behind Every Successful Nursing Mother858.Find Your Own Kind1009.Red Angry Nipples11310.The "Vacation"122Part 211.It Gets Easier14112.The Other Thing Behind a Nursing Mom ...14913.The Purgatory of Part-time Work16114.The Comfort of Nursing17315.A Half-hour Late to a Half-hour Class or the Baby Formerly Known as Sophie18316.Beware of Bake Sales19717.Weaning20818.In Sync with the Universe216Epilogue: Cranks, Hot Mamas, and Sherpas221Acknowledgments225Bibliography227Resources229
\ Publishers WeeklyLike many mothers-to-be, Shapiro romanticized breastfeeding: "I envisioned tender mommy moments... nursing my baby." As a result, before daughter Sophie arrived, Shapiro followed the ignorance-is-bliss approach: "I remember thinking breastfeeding instruction was a waste of time. `It's the most natural thing in the world.' " Surprise, surprise when she discovers it's significantly harder than Brooke Shields makes it look in The Blue Lagoon. Mimicking the frank, humorous style of The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy, Shapiro relates, in frequently graphic detail, the perils of breastfeeding: tender breasts, engorgement, sore nipples, nursing injuries and cluster feedings. Over the course of Sophie's first year, Shapiro, with the help of lactation consultants and a nursing support group, becomes a breastfeeding advocate, proselytizing to new moms ("I found it difficult to fathom how easy nursing had gotten. My instinct was to spread the word"). Shapiro maintains an easy voice, though the book turns startlingly somber as she writes of September 11, 2001, which feels starkly out of place in this breezy memoir. Shapiro is this book's star, and Sophie (never mind husband Peter) plays a surprisingly small role. At times, Shapiro seems shallow, obsessing about her appearance and the commonness of her daughter's name. Mothers who formula feed will find little in this narrative; those who have struggled with breastfeeding, however, will laugh with empathy at Shapiro's tales of weight loss (or lack thereof), cabbage leaves (used to relieve engorgement) and the unending fluids that emerge from a nursing woman's body. Agent, JCA Literary Agency. (May) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
