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• Professional Books
• UCLA Lactation Educator Course Books
• Advocacy
• Breastfeeding Books for Parents
• Parenting
• Fathering
• Breastfeeding in Special Situations
• Spanish Materials
• Children?s Books
• Task Force Members Favorite Good Reads

 
Professional Books

• Breastfeeding Answer Book, 3rd Revised Edition by Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie Stock, Book

• Breastfeeding Answer Book (pocket guide), by Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie Stock, Book

• Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, 6th edition by Ruth Lawrence, MD and Robert Lawrence MD

• Breastfeeding: A Parent's Guide by Amy Spangler

• Breastfeeding Atlas, Revised edition by Barbara Wilson-Clay, BS, IBCLC and Kay Hoover, M Ed, IBCLC

• Breastfeeding & Human Lactation, Jan Riodan

• Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians by AAP, ACOG and AAFP (softcover)

• Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence by Marcia Walker

• Clinical Therapy in Breastfeeding Patients, 2nd revised edition (Thomas Hale & Pamela Berens)

• Counseling the Nursing Mother: Fourth revised edition by Judith Lauwers and Anna Swisher

• Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice by Marsha Walker

• Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review by Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC

• Medications and Mothers' Milk, 2006 by Thomas Hale, Ph.D.

• The Lactation Consultant in Private Practice: The ABCs of Getting Started by Linda J. Smith, BSE, FACCW, IBCLC

• Reclaiming Breastfeeding for the United States: Protection, Promotion and Support Edited by Karin Cadwell, Cindy Turner-Maffei

 

UCLA Lactation Educator Course Books

Required:

• Huggins, Kathleen, Nursing Mother's Companion, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2005
• Lawrence, Ruth A and Lawrence, Robert M., Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, 6th Edition, 2005
• Mohrbacher, Nancy and Stock, Julie, The Breastfeeding Answer Book, 3rd Revised edition, 2003

Optional:

• La Leche League International, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 7th Edition
• Lipson, Julienne, Dibble, Suzanne, Minarik, Pamela., Culture and Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide, UCSF Nursing Press, San Francisco, CA 1996
• Mager, Robert F, Preparing Instructional Objectives, 3rd Edition, 1997

 

Advocacy

• Breastfeeding Matters: What We Need to Know About Infant Feeding, Fourth edition by Maureen K. Minchin

• Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding: Protecting the Mother and Baby Continuum by Mary Kroeger and Linda Smtih

• Milk, Money and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding by Naomi Baumslag and Dia L. Michels

• Selling Out Mothers and Babies: Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes in the USA, by Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC

 

Breastfeeding Books for Parents

• American Academy of Pediatrics New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding 

• American Academy of Pediatrics and Joan Younger Meek

• Bestfeeding, Second Revised Edition by Mary Renfrew, Chloe Fisher, and Suzanne Arms

• Black Woman's Guide To Breastfeeding: The Definitive Guide to Nursing for African American  Mothers (Paperback)

• Breastfeeding Cafe, The: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing by Barbara L. Behrmann

• Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (Paperback)
  by Nancy Mohrbacher, Kathleen Kendall-tackett

• Breastfeeding, Pure and Simple, Revised Edition by Gwen Gotsch

• Eat Well, Lose Weight While Breastfeeding by Eileen Behan, RD

• Hirkani?s Daughters Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working Compiled and edited by Jennifer Hicks

• Medication Guide for Breastfeeding Moms by Thomas Hale and Ghia McAfee
  Nursing Mother, Working Mother by Gale Pryor

• Nursing Mother's Companion, Huggins, Kathleen, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2005

• So That's What They're For! Breastfeeding Basics, Second edition by Janet Tamaro

• Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers by Dr. Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman

• Why Should I Nurse My Baby? By Pamela K. Wiggins, IBCLC

• Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 7th Edition

 

Parenting

• Attachment Parenting Book by William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN

• Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know about Your Baby from Birth to Age Two by William Sears and Martha Sears

• Bring out the best - in your child and yourself by Ilene Val Essen
• Fussy Baby: How to Bring Out the Best in Your High-Need Child by William and Martha Sears
• Good Nights: The Happy Parent's Guide to the Family Bed (And a Peaceful Night's Sleep) by Jay Gordon, MD and Maria Goodavage
• Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
• Happiest Toddler on the Block by Harvey Karp, The

• How Weaning Happens by Diane Bengson

• Mothering and Fathering: The Gender Differences in Parenting by Tine Thevenin

• Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, revised edition by Norma Jane Bumgarner

• Nighttime Parenting, Revised edition by William Sears

• Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning by Kathleen Huggins and Linda Ziedrich

• Listening to Your Baby by Jay Gordon

• No Cry Sleep Solution By Elizabeth Pantley

• Successful Child: What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Turn out Well by William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN

• Sweet Dreams by Paul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH, FAAP

 

Fathering

• Becoming a Father, Revised Edition, By William Sears, MD

• Fatherwise: 101 Tips for a New Father by Alice Bolster

• Fathering Right from the Start by Jack Heinowitz, PhD

• Mothering and Fathering: The Gender Differences in Parenting by Tine Thevenin

 

Breastfeeding in Special Situations

• Adventures in Tandem Nursing, by Hilary Flower

• Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby, Revised Edition by Gwen Gotsch

• Breastfeeding the Adopted Baby, Revised Edition by Debra Stewart Peterson>

• Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding after Breast Reduction Surgery by Diana West

• Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More! Revised Edition. By Karen Gromada

 

Spanish Materials

• Amamantar Sencillo y Puro

• El Arte Femenino de Amamantar

• Lactancia Materna Libro de Respuestas

• Por qu?deberia amamantar a mi beb? by Pamela Wiggins, IBCLC

 

Children's Books

• Breastmilk Makes My Tummy Yummy By Cecilia Moen

• If My Mom Were a Platypus by Dia Michels

• I Was Born to Be a Sister by Akaela S. Michels-Gualtieri

• Look What I See! Where Can I Be? In the Neighborhood by Dia L. Michels

• Maggie's Weaning by Mary Joan Deutschbein

• Michele, The Nursing Toddler by Jane Pinczuk, Illustrated by Barbara Murray

• Supermom by Mick Manning

• The Cuddlers by Stacy Towle-Morgan

• The Best Gifts by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Illustrated by Halina Below

• We Like to Nurse by Chia Martin

• Will There Be a Lap for Me? by Dorothy Corey, Illustrated by Nancy Poydar

• Sophie and the New Baby by Laurence Anholt, illustrated by Catherine Anholt

 

Task Force Members Favorite Good Reads

• Beekeeper's Apprentice, The, by Laurie R. King

• Leaving Mother Lake (A girlhood at the Edge of the World) by Yang Erche Namu, Christine Mathieu

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Motorcycle Diaries, The (Movie Tie-in Edition) : Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell