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5.0 out of 5 stars
DEFINING YOUR OWN SUCCESS by Diana West, 24 Aug 2002
By A Customer
As necessary as oxygen for any mother who has had breast reduction surgery and plans to breastfeed, this book motivates and supports her in every way.
It differs from the usual breastfeeding manual in a deep and significant way and understands fully what a breastfeeding mother who has had breast reduction surgery goes through emotionally and physically. This book is the first in its field and is as invaluable to a BFAR (BreastFeeding After Reduction) mother as The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is to other breastfeeding mothers. In no way must this book be ignored, especially not by health care professionals who work with such mothers. I have been going to La Leche League meetings for four years and never have I felt so understood by anyone, even though they have supported me unconditionally. I cried so much while reading this book?for my lost lactating capacity, for my lost and lonely self at 18. I cried because at last I felt connected to other women who have had similar experiences. The book supports your feelings and encourages you to work through them, not to ignore them. It helps you to understand how surgically altered breasts work. It tells you how to increase your lactating capacity, which can be quite different from normal breasts. So many questions were answered which I have given up asking, because there was never enough information in other books. I have always felt that while I was not quite a breastfeeding failure, I was not quite a success either. This book lets you define success and failure in totally different terms: not that you didn?t breastfeed exclusively, but that you breastfed at all! Even mothers whose breasts don?t produce one drop of milk, can be breastfeeding mothers with the aid of an at-breast supplementer. This book gives hope, promise and a chance of success where previously there has been none.
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