At 4 by 6 inches and roughly 100 pages, Mommy's Little Breastfeeding Book, by Michelle Leigh Carnesecca, IBCLC (Bennett Communications, 2008) is the smallest breastfeeding book I've reviewed.
But don't underestimate small. This book packs a lot of information into a little package. The author has distilled just about all the basic breastfeeding information into 100 brief points. It's a quick read and is well organized, with a good index and cute illustrations.
There is one small piece of information which is not up-to-date: a diagram showing "milk sinuses" (new research has found that these don't exist). The discussion of latch is a little confusing, suggesting in one place that "nose and chin should touch the breast," while elsewhere it says that the nose should be 'barely touching' the breast. The current thinking is that an "asymmetrical latch," in which the chin is deep in the breast and the nose is off the breast, achieves the deepest and most comfortable latch.
But these are fairly minor issues. Overall, the book presents solid information in a concise format. I think that this little book would be a good shower basket gift, especially for a mother who isn't quite sure that she wants to breastfeed, and may not be willing to read a tome like Breastfeeding Made Simple or The Nursing Mother's Companion.
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