How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother (Paperback)
Description
In this hilarious breast-feeding tell-all - the first of its kind - Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her rookie year as a nursing mother. She gives readers the skinny on important new mom essentials such as: chocolate, ice cream, sexy nursing bras, lactation consultants, breast pumps, mother's groups, play dates, Mommy and Me Yoga (not), and much more.
About the Author
Lisa Wood Shapiro, a writer and Emmy-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS, A&E, Nickelodeon, Noggin, and elsewhere, studied nonfiction writing with the late Lucy Grealy and the poet Thomas Lux. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.
Praise for How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother…
"How My Breasts Saved the World is mother's milk for any new mama struggling with confounding transformation from woman into human canteen."--Vanity Fair
"Refreshingly hysterical. Any woman can benefit from Shapiro's hard-won education."--BUST magazine
"Shapiro's memoir . . . offers a welcome real-life complement to weightier breastfeeding advice."--Brain, Child magazine
"Engaging, honest, and lighthearted."--International Lactation Consultant Association
"A comforting tale of post-baby drama & confusion."--Fit Pregnancy
