Better Breastfeeding: A Doctor's Guide to Nursing Without Pain and Frustration

The ultimate modern-day breastfeeding guide, with empowering, medically sound advice and solutions for the trickiest issues--from a pioneering ENT doctor and breastfeeding expert.

In today's breastfeeding-friendly environment, the pressure to nurse is intense. We hear over and over that breastfeeding is natural, and every woman can do it. The truth is, the majority of moms need help breastfeeding, but they're forced to sift through varying viewpoints from a dizzying host of sources instead of being able to turn to a doctor for advice. And when breastfeeding doesn't work, they're the ones getting blamed for failure.

In Better Breastfeeding, you will find information, not opinions: science-backed facts to help you make informed decisions, without feeling ashamed or bullied. Dr. Linda Dahl presents a new paradigm for breastfeeding based on diagnosing and treating mothers and babies using anatomy and physiology, offering a comprehensive overview of how breastfeeding works, why it fails, and what to do about it. Dr. Dahl takes you through the basics of breastfeeding in a week-by-week guide and explores solutions for little-understood difficulties like gape restriction and tongue tie, nipple and breast pain, issues with milk supply, or abnormal nursing behaviors.

Better Breastfeeding is the no-holds-barred primer that every mom needs before and during her breastfeeding journey so she can advocate for herself and her baby.


Author: Linda D. Dahl
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780593233658
ISBN10: 0593233654
BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Breastfeeding
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
- Health & Fitness | Pregnancy & Childbirth

About the Author
Linda Dahl, MD, is an ENT-otolaryngologist who also started her own practice, where she focuses on infants with breastfeeding issues, and developed a methodology to help bring mothers and infants together without pain, frustration, or multiple consults. She has treated over 23,000 baby/mom breastfeeding pairs over the years with a nearly 90% success rate. She has also written and co-written articles published in such scientific journals as the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology and the Journal of Voice and the book, Clinicians Guide to Breastfeeding: Evidence-based Evaluation and Management.