Full name: So That's What They're for: Breastfeeding Basics

Author: Janet Tamaro Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781580620413 1580620418

What a disgusting condescending and scientifically inaccurate book. As a researcher stuck on maternity leave, books like this really allowed me to let loose on going down peer reviewed rabbit holes. Surprise! All the scare-mongering about how formula is "dead [...] artificial" milk that tanks a kid's IQ points by 8-10 points (PLEASE - I'm a psychologist trained in IQ tests - if that were true we would have been taught it because NO single factor other than genetics and SES have that big an impact), keeps babies from bonding with mothers, keeps baby from being given ALL OF THE IMMUNITIES, etc etc etc are just...not held up by actual research. Sibling studies that control for maternal IQ and family SES/education found basically no differences between breast fed and formula fed babies. Why can't people just be supportive of women who want to breastfeed without tearing down women who can't? Why is part of our modern culture that the only way to elevate one thing is to actively denigrate the other thing? I spit on this book. Ptooi! Ptooi! Similar books: The Breastfeeding Book by Martha Sears Breastfeeding Made Simple by Nancy Mohrbacher The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International Mothering Your Nursing Toddler by Norma J. Bumgarner Adventures in Tandem Nursing by Hilary Flower How Weaning Happens by Diane Bengson The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning by Kathleen Huggins