Book Review:The Drinks Are On Me
I have just read a book named The Drinks are on me.
Isn't it a beautiful name for a book about breastfeeding?
The author,Veronika Robinson, whom I have written about here many times,is the editor of The Mother Magazine. 
In this book she shares her own experiences as a mother who breastfed her children for 10 years (including 5 years of tandem feeding).
As she says on the foreword,in an ideal world our mothers would have tell us everything they knew about breastfeeding.Sadly we don't live in this ideal world so she tells everything your mother never told you about breastfeeding.
She mentions the common issues about breastfeeding,the latch positions,the problems you may encounter (engorgement,mastitis etc )however what I like most is that there is a huge section about breastfeeding toddlers,tandem feeding,child-led weaning and how it feels to breastfeed older children (her daughters self-weaned at 7 and 8).
Veronika says that her utopia is that children are breastfed at least two and a half years and if parent-led weaning must happen,she wishes it to be gentle rather than abrupt.
This book is a gem, so inspiring!I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended!
3 comments:
Thanks for the review, it sounds like a fascinating book, I shall add it to my must-read list :)
Great review; I know I have been thinking about breastfeeding, child led weaning, etc. so much more now that I am nursing while pregnant. From what Annabelle tells me, there is little milk left in the num-nums (and thus she doesn't want them as much). That said, I would love to see what TDAOM has to say about nursing during preg.
Thanks girls.
Green Mamma,I wish I could tell you more however I had borrowed the book and gave it back.I hope it is not too difficult for you to BF during pregnancy.
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