Breastfeeding, Take Two

Breastfeeding is such an emotional experience and when your hopes and desires to breastfeed don’t turn out as expected, it can be absolutely devastating.

Breastfeeding, Take Two: Successful Breastfeeding the Second Time Around is a new book aimed at mothers who have had previous challenges breastfeeding and who want to breastfeeding their next baby. The book focuses on the emotions surrounding breastfeeding, the social and medical interventions that make breastfeeding difficult, and information and advice needed to help make breastfeeding work the second time around.

The joy of a new pregnancy can quickly be replaced with worry and fear over the prospects of trying to breastfeed the second time around. This book helps to examine those emotions and position you for a more positive breastfeeding experience.

From the back cover:

“Our decision to breastfeed, and our ability to breastfeed, are two of the most interfered-with aspects of childrearing, and we as mothers are for the most part unaware of this reality.”

Breastfeeding is a biologically expected activity. It is, for many women, a relationship that is deeply desired, a relationship that is deeply emotional. To lose that relationship is to lose something very real, something that has value and purpose and meaning.

Our biology wants us to breastfeed, wants our babies to breastfeed, but what we experience is a separation between what is biologically expected and what is socially accepted. Breastfeeding, Take Two examines this separation between biology and society and the balance that new mothers seek to find between the two. Written for women who have had previous breastfeeding challenges and who want to successfully breastfeed their next baby, Breastfeeding, Take Two will:

• empower you to  trust your body again, and the power it holds
• help you redefine what successful breastfeeding looks like
• examine the emotional side of breastfeeding
• discuss the societal and medical interventions that can affect breastfeeding
• share information and advice to help you heal from the loss of your first breastfeeding relationship and position yourself for a successful experience the second time around.

Written by a mother of two who has first-hand knowledge of both the challenges and successes of breastfeeding, Breastfeeding, Take Two is part memoir, part self-help, and part social debate. Take a step towards regaining the balance between your biology and society and create a positive, successful breastfeeding experience for yourself— and your baby—the second time around.