The system is not set up for you to do it well,” says Seals Allers, who was able to work through her breastfeeding issues and nursed both her daughter and son. “This book really is about looking at all these influences that are going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about. Her position as an advocate of breastfeeding is immediately clear - the cover of the hardcover book shows a baby bottle with the nipple tied in a knot. Her book isn’t a how-to-breastfeed guide it’s a sociological and historical look at breastfeeding in the United States. Martin’s Press, $25.99), Allers examines other factors she argues are stacked against women who are trying to do something that has kept humanity alive since the beginning of time. In “The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding” (St. “My first job as a mother is to feed my baby,” she writes, “and I am failing miserably already.”īut women’s struggles to breastfeed, according to Seals Allers’ book, aren’t solely caused by their bodies. Kimberly Seals Allers starts her new book about breastfeeding with a description of her own desperate attempt to resolve issues she faced nursing her first child, describing her body as committing “an act of biological treason.” The book also offers entertaining sections called “Wisdom From our Ancestors,” which includes folk myths and superstitions such as this one: “If you crave something when you’re pregnant and you eat a lot of it, your baby will have a mark that looks like the thing you craved.” “We wanted to represent those things, good and bad, so that a black woman can pick up the book and say, ‘This one’s for me,’ ” Greenidge-Hewitt says.
It covers labor and delivery, and details about black newborns’ skin and hair. Their 215-page book covers pregnancy diet and includes healthier soul food recipes lower in salt and fat health issues common to pregnant black women such as hypertension, gestational diabetes and low birth weight and a month-by-month guide to baby’s development in the womb. So she partnered with Greenidge-Hewitt, medical director of Woman to Woman OB/GYN in Yonkers and a an assistant clinical professor at New York Columbia Presbyterian from 1994 to 2015. “I knew I couldn’t write a book on this topic without a doctor,” says Campbell, whose training and background is in education. She felt she had a dual purpose: to educate black women about what is happening inside their pregnant bodies, and to celebrate all shades of babies with glossy, upbeat, coffee-table-book-style photos of pregnant women of color, incorporating their culture and identity. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.
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