Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning - Revised: How to Bring Breastfeeding to a Gentle Close, and How to Decide When the Time Is Right

Kathleen Huggins, Linda Ziedrich

Harvard Common Press, Sep 17, 2010 - Health & Fitness - 224 pages

Everything a nursing mother needs to know about weaning by breastfeeding expert, Kathleen Huggins.

About the author

Kathleen Huggins is a registered nurse and board-certified lactation consultant who is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in establishing the lactation consultant discipline as a core component of maternal-child health care in US hospitals. She established this reputation by creating and running a model breastfeeding clinic at San Luis Obispo General Hospital in California; by lecturing widely to professional peers and hospital administrators; and through her book The Nursing Mother's Companion. She has also co-authored The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning and Nursing Mother, Working Mother. She lives in San Luis Obispo, where she currently runs a new mothers' store, Simply MaMa. She continues to lecture widely in the healthcare and lactation-consultant arenas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning - Revised: How to Bring Breastfeeding to a Gentle Close, and How to Decide When the Time Is Right
• Authors: Kathleen Huggins, Linda Ziedrich
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1558325190, 9781558325197
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Breastfeeding