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Mother Food For Breastfeeding Mothers
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Product Description
"Mother Food," a unique healthguide, herbal, and cookbook for breastfeeding mothers, draws on traditions from around the world. Focusing on pregnancy and the postpartum, "Mother Food" explores lactogenic foods and herbs and how they enhance milk production, prevent postpartum depression, increase energy, promote gentle weightloss and detox, improve the mother's and baby's immune systems, and also how they affect a baby's IQ, colic, allergy, and even her like or dislike of the taste of her mother's milk. Expert opinions are reviewed and traditional systems of medicine are succinctly explained. Written in an easy-to-read style and replete with remedies and recipes, "Mother Food" is both practical and informative. Recommended by lactation consultants and approved by the La Leche League International Book Evaluation Committee, "Mother Food" has become a favorite of mothers who want to learn what they can do to optimize both the quantity and quality of their milk, while contributing to their own and their baby's best health.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #393528 in Books
- Published on: 2004-05-28
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 344 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
Diana West, BA, IBCLC, author of "Defining your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery"
"A book about the way foods influence milk composition - truly excellent."
Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC
"What we eat CAN matter. "Mother Food" is a wonderful collection of historical traditions from cultures around the world and what they feed mothers to support good health, breastfeeding, and plentiful milk production. Hilary Jacobson has put years of research into pulling together information that has almost been lost to the western world; every mother will benefit from reading this book, as well as anyone who works with or supports breastfeeding mothers."
Cheryl R. Scott, RN, IBCLC, Ph.D.
"This book is a 'must read' book for all pregnant and breastfeeding mothers along with their health care providers. Mrs. Jacobson provides information on how to avoid allergies, how to lower a mother's toxic load, how to prevent over-detoxification while breastfeeding, how to prevent infant colic, postpartum depression, anemia, insulin resistance, food cravings and food addictions along with how to promote and create a healthy milk supply. I love all of the helpful and yummy recipes sprinkled throughout the book."
Sheila Humphrey, RSC, RN, IBCLC, author of "Nursing Mothers Herbal":
"I like 'Mother Food's' independent originality. Reading 'Mother Food' is like entering a garden with intriguing viewpoints and a number of paths that invite further exploration. One's imagination is given permission to run rampant within beautifully arranged beds of knowledge that reveal themselves slowly along the meandering but manicured paths. For many restricted to thinking only with "evidence-based" information, reading the book will be like finding an inviting gate leading out of a walled city."
About the Author
Hilary Jacobson was faced by a conundrum: serious low milk supply with each of her four children. A student of nutrition and herbalsm since her teens, she now learned about herbs and foods used traditionally in Europe, Asia, by Native Americans and in Africa to increase milk supply, so-called 'galactagogues' that helped her maintain an abundant milk supply.
Jacobson: "This knowledge felt like a birthright. I thought all mothers should know it is possible to gain a degree of control over your body's ability to produce milk and your baby's ability to digest it. It is impossible to imagine how crucial these two things are to your sanity unless you are a mother dealing with these issues."
When Jacobson learned that mothers in many cultures do pass down this knowledge through the generations, and that it has been lost only in western culture, she resolved to write a book that would return this knowledge to western women.
Hilary Jacobson was born in California. She is a music teacher and writer, and lived thirty years in Switzerland. She now lives in Southern California where she is writing the Mother Food Books Series.
Customer Reviews
must have reference for nursing moms
This is a terrific reference for any expecting or nursing mother. I wish I had had it before my first born. I highly recommend. Information in this book is very hard to find elsewhere.
The info a mother with breastfeeding issues needs!
I found this book after a referal from a lactation consultant after my third baby was born and in the nicu. I had low milk supply issues with each baby but it was worse after my baby was in the nicu. This book offers help that seems to be hard to find from doctors and the medical proffession at large. At the very least it explains things in a way that you can finally understand what is going on, rather being told some bland explanation from a doctor that doesn't offer any help.
Good nutrition book
I fell in love with this book. I had a lot of trouble breastfeeding my first child and as I was preparing for pregnancy with my second child, I wanted answers. This book explained a lot of the troubles that I personally had. The book is also a good nutrition book, not just for pregnant or nursing mothers, but for anyone. I highly recommend this book for anyone that is looking for nutrition or herbal advise for pregnancy and breastfeeding.
