Product Description

It is widely recommended that babies breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of life and continue breastfeeding through one to two years of age. The revised edition of this award-winning guide includes the legal rights of breastfeeding mothers, new research on working moms and infant attachment, and information on breast pumps and maintaining milk production. It's the only book that provides reassuring and informative help for nursing mothers to meet the challenge of combining breastfeeding and their working lives with success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #379223 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-05
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .72" h x 6.06" w x 9.23" l, .88 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Gale Pryor was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and moved to New York City in 1976. After receiving her degree in English literature from Cornell University, she returned to New York to work in publishing. She married and continued her publishing career with Little, Brown in Boston. Two months after the birth of her son she returned to a full-time job that required substantial travel and continued to nurse happily for eighteen months. During the same period, Pryor revised her mother Karen Pryor’s classic breastfeeding guide, Nursing Your Baby, making it relevant to the concerns and sensibilities of a new generation of mothers.

With the birth of her second son, Pryor joined Candlewick Press, a children’s-book publisher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a copywriter and editor. After breastfeeding two sons while continuing her professional pursuits, she realized that the barriers to combining nursing and working were broader and more complex than learning to use a breast pump.  She wrote the first edition of Nursing Mother, Working Mother for other women facing the same perplexing situation. In preparation for writing Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Pryor interviewed dozens of mothers over the Internet and in person.  She also studied the research of anthropologists, lactation specialists, psychologists, and sociologists.  Most importantly, perhaps, she drew on her own experience of one of a mother’s most difficult and rewarding challenges: combining breastfeeding and motherhood with a career.  Pryor continues to write and edit from her family home in Belmont, Massachusetts.

For more than twenty-five years, Kathleen Huggins, R.N., M.S., I.B.C.L.C., has dedicated her medical career to helping mothers care more effectively for their newborn babies. A registered nurse with an M.A. in perinatal care from the University of California at San Francisco, Huggins has spent the past two decades as a perinatal clinical specialist and board-certified lactation consultant at San Luis Obispo General Hospital in California. During this time she co-directed Breastfeeding Warmline, a telephone counseling service for nursing mothers. Huggins has also worked as a college instructor of fetal-newborn development, and has lead seminars on a variety of topics related to perinatal care and breastfeeding.

Huggins is owner of the maternity store Simply Mama. She is the author of several books on breastfeeding and has sold more than one million copies. She lives in California with her husband and youngest child.