“Dr. Frederick Leboyer was the first physician to challenge society’s deeply held beliefs about awareness in the newborn. His pioneering works on birthing, including “Birth Without Violence”, have forever revolutionized the course of prenatal care and the way babies are introduced to the world. He also pioneered introducing infant massage to the Western world.”
“Birth without Violence revolutionised the way we perceive the process of birth, urging us to consider birth from the infant’s point of view. Why must a child emerge from the quiet darkness of the womb into a blaze of blinding light and loud voices? Why must an infant take its first breath in terror, hanging upside down as its vulnerable spine is jerked straight? Why must the infant be separated from its mother after spending nine months inside her nourishing body?”
This is an interview with Frédérick Leboyerin 2006. He is an amazing man with a vast expanse of knowledge – anyone who says ‘pregnancy is not a sickness’ gets the thumbs up in my book!
To win a copy of Birth without Violence just enter using the fantastic Rafflecopter system!
Published February 2012, now available for preorder – your credit card will be charged when you order and the book despatched as soon as we have stock. Enter PM20 for 20% off and free UK delivery.
Parents everywhere worry when their baby or toddler doesn’t seem to eat as much as they think he should. Carlos González, a paediatrician and father, sets those fears to rest as he explores the reasons why a child refuses food, the pitfalls of growth charts, and the ways that growth and activity affect a child’s calorific needs. He discusses how eating problems start and how they can be avoided.My Child Won’t Eatincludes mothers’ stories of the anguish and torment they have gone through in trying to get their children to eat.
Carlos González reassures parents that children know how much they need to eat and explains why a parent’s only involvement should be in providing healthy food choices. Forcing a child to eat more than he needs can only lead to tears, tantrums and, eventually, possibly even obesity.
Questions Carlos González answers include:
Why won’t my child eat?
How much does a child need to eat?
Why don’t children like vegetables?
What does it mean to breastfeed on demand?
When should my baby start to eat solid foods?
“This splendid and easy-to-read book presents a common-sense approach to one of the biggest worries of parenthood. Dr. González reminds us that children know a lot more about their nutritional needs than we give them credit for and that the problem is almost always ours, not theirs.”
COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING by Gabrielle Palmer
New book on nutrition by the author of The Politics of Breastfeeding.
Gabrielle Palmer’s groundbreaking book The Politics of Breastfeeding highlighted the controversies surrounding the aggressive promotion of breastmilk substitutes. She now turns her attention to complementary feeding the first foods that a child eats besides milk.
For most of human existence, children went without industrially processed foods and branded food products. Can we applaud the progress of the way children are fed today? In our unequal world one billion people risk their health through overconsumption while two billion people are hungry. The health problems of both groups start in early childhood.
The power and influence of the food industry has increased dramatically in recent decades. Seductive and often unethical modern marketing methods have led to the promotion of unsuitable, unnecessary and sometimes harmful baby foods. Yet not all industrially processed foods are bad and not all natural foods are good. Both poor and rich children may be inappropriately fed.
What lessons can we learn from history? How do cultural and religious beliefs influence the choice of food? Can government initiatives have any effect? How can we provide good nutrition for all infants? This brief, compassionate and thought-provoking new book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the world, its children and their nutrition, and will stimulate discussion and debate as part of the campaign to create a world where health for all is a true goal.
Pinter & Martin is an independent book publisher based in London, with distribution throughout the world. We specialise in psychology, pregnancy, birth and parenting, fiction and yoga, and publish authors who challenge the status quo, such as Elliot Aronson, Grantly Dick-Read, Ina May Gaskin, Stanley Milgram, Guillermo O’Joyce, Michel Odent, Gabrielle Palmer, Stuart Sutherland and Frank Zappa. www.pinterandmartin.com
THE OXYTOCIN FACTOR by Kerstin Uvnas Moberg First paperback edition of milestone book on oxytocin.
In recent years there have been exciting scientific discoveries about a hormone whose amazing role in the human body has long been neglected. Oxytocin is the powerful hormone involved in bonding, sex, and childbirth, as well as in relaxation and feelings of calm. It is the mirror image of the stress hormone adrenaline, which triggers the ‘fight or flight’ systems in the body. Much has been written about the latter, but the many-sided importance of oxytocin is at this point known only to those working in obstetrics and physiology and to some psychiatrists.
The Oxytocin Factor is the first book to reveal the importance of the whole oxytocin system for a general audience. Both the new research findings and the potentially beneficial applications of this hormone in reducing anxiety states, stress, addictions, and problems of childbirth are fascinating and of great significance in all our lives.
“I love this book: a scientific text sparkling with clarity while full of empathy for the reader. Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg’s gift for explaining the complexities of our bodies in the most straightforward language helped me to understand how oxytocin makes us human. Her work inspired me in my revision of The Politics of Breastfeeding.” Gabrielle Palmer
It can be anything – the smell of freshly cut grass, the cat purring, a child’s laugh, neatly paired socks…….
Each comment gets you one entry and you can get extra entries for tweeting and sharing on Facebook, blogs and forums – please let me know how many entries you are claiming in your comment.
Comp ends on the 14th July 2011 and is only for people in Europe – sorry!
The winner was Sarah Anguish who has been emailed, thank you for entering everyone!
Join Pinter & Martin at our home/offices for an informal social evening with Gabrielle Palmer, the author of The Politics of Breastfeeding, to talk about her latest book Complementary Feeding: Nutrition, Culture and Politics, published on July 5th 2011. The conversation with Gabrielle will be followed by drinks and a light buffet dinner and guest will have the opportunity to get books signed. The admission fee of £12 goes towards author’s fees and expenses.
The Psychologist says Stanley Milgram’s The Individual in a Social World is “…a joy to read. The general scope of Milgram’s vision, and ease of his prose make this an essential book for anyone with an interest in (social) psychology.”
“Dr. Frederick Leboyer was the first physician to challenge society’s deeply held beliefs about awareness in the newborn. His pioneering works on birthing, including “Birth Without Violence”, have forever revolutionized the course of prenatal care and the way babies are introduced to the world. He also pioneered introducing infant massage to the Western world.”
“Birth without Violence revolutionised the way we perceive the process of birth, urging us to consider birth from the infant’s point of view. Why must a child emerge from the quiet darkness of the womb into a blaze of blinding light and loud voices? Why must an infant take its first breath in terror, hanging upside down as its vulnerable spine is jerked straight? Why must the infant be separated from its mother after spending nine months inside her nourishing body?”
There is a chance to meet Frédérick Leboyer at the Pinter & Martin home/offices on the 28th May 2011. Mr Leboyer will read from his classic book and answer questions. The reading will be followed by drinks and a light buffet dinner and guest will have the opportunity to get books signed. The admission fee goes towards author’s fees and expenses.
This is an interview with Frédérick Leboyerin 2006. He is an amazing man with a vast expanse of knowledge – anyone who says ‘pregnancy is not a sickness’ gets the thumbs up in my book!
To win a copy of Birth without Violence just comment below with your top tip for a calm birth. Each tip gets you one entry and you can get extra entries for tweeting and sharing on Facebook, blogs and forums – please let me know how many entries you are claiming in your comment.
Comp ends on the 28th May 2011 and is only for people in Europe – sorry!
The winner will be drawn at random and notified by email.
Pinter and Martin are a small publishing house that specialise in pregnancy and birth and publish around 12 new books a year. They are sponsors and great supporters of Lactivist and without sponsors this site could not continue. They are lovely to deal with and I want to make it worth their while supporting Lactivist so please look at their website – www.pinterandmartin.com
To enter the second competition to win Birth Matters please comment below and tell us:
What book needs to be written about Pregnancy and Birth. What is missing from the bookshops? What subjects are not covered enough?
Competition ends 30th April 2011 at midnight and the winner will be the one with the best answer according to me and my quality control dept (my 7 year old son).
Competition is only for people in the UK and Europe – sorry!
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A woman who gives birth in the US today is more likely to die in childbirth than her mother was. With one in three babies born via cesarean, the US ranks behind thirty other nations in neonatal mortality rates, and forty other nations in maternal mortality rates. Confidence in women’s bodies and women’s choices has been lost.
In Birth Matters, Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, reminds us that the ways in which women experience birth have implications for us all. Renewing confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth provides transformative possibilities for individual families, and for society at large.
Known around the world for her birthing practice’s exemplary low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality, Ina May Gaskin has gained an international reputation in obstetrics for demonstrating the magic key to safe birth: respect for the natural process. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, nurture families, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.
“Ms. Gaskin is a bright light shining into a dark chasm of forgetting… I believe we should do well to hold Gaskin’s writings up among the great philosophical contributions to our time.” Ani DiFranco, from the foreword
“A wonderful book expressing Ina May’s energy and vision.” Sheila Kitzinger, author of Rediscovering Birth”
Thank you so much to everyone that entered – the winner was Sara Simon
Pinter and Martin are a small publishing house that specialise in pregnancy and birth and publish around 12 new books a year. They are sponsors and great supporters of Lactivist and without sponsors this site could not continue. They are lovely to deal with and I want to make it worth their while supporting Lactivist so please look at their website – www.pinterandmartin.com
To enter the first competition to win Birth Matters please look at the Pinter and Martin website – www.pinterandmartin.comand then comment below telling us which Pinter and Martin book you would like to win (apart from Birth Matters) and why.
Competition ends 30th April 2011 at midnight and the winner will be the one with the best answer according to me and my quality control dept (my 7 year old son).
Competition is only for people in the UK and Europe – sorry!
”
A woman who gives birth in the US today is more likely to die in childbirth than her mother was. With one in three babies born via cesarean, the US ranks behind thirty other nations in neonatal mortality rates, and forty other nations in maternal mortality rates. Confidence in women’s bodies and women’s choices has been lost.
In Birth Matters, Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, reminds us that the ways in which women experience birth have implications for us all. Renewing confidence in a woman’s natural ability to birth provides transformative possibilities for individual families, and for society at large.
Known around the world for her birthing practice’s exemplary low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality, Ina May Gaskin has gained an international reputation in obstetrics for demonstrating the magic key to safe birth: respect for the natural process. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, nurture families, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.
“Ms. Gaskin is a bright light shining into a dark chasm of forgetting… I believe we should do well to hold Gaskin’s writings up among the great philosophical contributions to our time.” Ani DiFranco, from the foreword
“A wonderful book expressing Ina May’s energy and vision.” Sheila Kitzinger, author of Rediscovering Birth”
The winner of this competition was Hilary Fyfe Hardy thank you to everyone who entered.
BoobBaby have a fabulous competition for you all this month. Pinter and Martin book publishers have kindly given them a copy of ‘When Your Baby Cries 10 rules for soothing fretful babies (and their parents!)’ by Deborah Jackson.
“Bursting with practical ideas, reassurances and collected wisdoms, When Your Baby Cries will restore your sanity.
Bestselling childcare author Deborah Jackson reminds us that babies soak up all the love we have to give. Here are ten effective ways to care for even the most distressed baby, while looking after your own needs as well as boosting your confidence.
Learn how to relax, become your own expert and deal with unwanted advice. Find out how crying works and why it gets out of control. Discover babies’ secret signals and how to cope with colic.”
The book includes some great ‘did you know’ snippets of information such as:
“Babies are born with a crying reflex, but not a laughing reflex. While giggling and laughing are usefulnfor social interplay and attracting attention, crying is essential for survival. The aim is to bring someone running in an emergency”
“The most common single remedy for soothing baby’s tears around the world is nursing: researchers in Africa, Japan, India and South America all found that a baby is likely to be put to the breast within seconds of starting to cry”
“It is not necessary to know what a baby is crying about in order to help him. Developmental psychologist Aletha Solter says, ‘trust the baby to do what he needs to do…pay attention to him without trying to stop him or distract him.”
The book includes chapters discussing breastfeeding, co-sleeping and babywearing in a positive light, which makes a refreshing change from the ‘leave baby to cry’ mentality of modern parenting.
To be in with a change of winning a copy of ‘When Your Baby Cries’ simply email BoobBaby at info@boobbaby.co.uk letting us know what your greatest breastfeeding challenge has been and how you overcame it. The competition closes at midnight on 28 February 2011 and a winner will be drawn at random on the 1 March 2011. Your entries will be put on our ‘Mums Top Tips’ section of the website.
Please note that this competition is open to UK residents only.
About the Publishers
Pinter & Martin is an independent publishing company founded in 1997 by writer and filmmaker Martin Wagner and childbirth educator Maria Pinter when we realised that Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority was unavailable in the UK. We continued to resurrect out of print classics such as Childbirth without Fear, Irrationality and Breath – books we felt still had a market, even though larger publishers didn’t share our enthusiasm.
We publish authors who challenge the status quo. While we specialise in psychology and pregnancy & birth, we also publish other subjects, but only books which are very close to our hearts. We publish around 12 books a year, so it’s always worth checking what’s new on our website. Pinter & Martin is based in London, but we sell and market books all over the world, with distribution in the US, Canada and Australia.
Take a look at their website for some great titles in childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting http://www.pinterandmartin.com/
Thank you to everyone who entered the competiton to win this book, given to me by the lovely Pinter and Martin who also help keep Lactivist.net going by sponsoring the site.
I asked you for your best breastfeeding advice and the list is long! On my list of things to do is to make a flyer with good, down to earth advice from mums and I will be using some of these, it is a shame that I can’t use all of them but that would make the flyer the size of a cot sheet!
Here are a few of the tips, chosen at random because it was impossible to choose best ones out of all of them which were so good:
My best tip for breastfeeding is to get yourself comfy first with a cup of tea and something to do (book, magazine, telly, laptop), and then see the time as not only a great bonding with baby opportunity but also a fab excuse to put your feet up and have some me-time
Pumping from the start meant I had a good supply from early on, and it meant my husband could take the 11pm feed so I could sleep solidly from 9pm – 1am, which made the world of difference to my tiredness levels.
Find support, USE it, breastfeed whenever baby asks (and it’s a LOT) and even if you fed them 5 minutes ago, their stomachs are SMALL and breastmilk is instantly absorbed!
Don’t let scare stories or early bad experiences put you off – every baby is different, and every nursing relationship is different. If I had had my second baby first, I’d have thought, “what’s all the fuss about? Breastfeeding is a doddle!” But my first baby and I really struggled to learn how to breastfeed. It was all worth it, so stick at it!
And the winner of Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding is Rebecca N who said -
“Try not to buy bottles and formula ‘just in case’ as it will be to easy to reach for it at 3am when you’re too tired to think straight.”
I’ll email you Rebecca and get the book out as soon as possible.
This is the second book from the pile of goodies in the Pinter and Martin giveaway. Tempted though I am to give it to the editor of Mother and Baby magazine, I think it will be wasted on her!
This is a sweet little book with a serious message. I hadn’t realised that the illustrator, Lou Gardiner, embroidered all the pictures! Genius!
Synopsis:
Do bottle fed babies sleep better and feed longer than breastfed babies? Are modern formula milks as good as breastmilk? Are breastfed babies woozies that want picking up all the time? And is it really easier and more convenient to bottle-feed?
Many women thinking about breastfeeding their babies are put off by rumours and myths. In their award-winning, beautifully illustrated book infant feeding specialist Val Finigan and embroidery artist Lou Gardiner tackle commonly held beliefs about breastfeeding with wisdom, warmth and wit.
Reviews:
“Clever, beautiful, thoughtful, vibrant and artistic, this delightful book is a colourful guide debunking common breastfeeding myths. The text is set against embroidery – perfect, not just in design, but as a metaphor for how humans embroider ideas and belief!” The Mother
“A lovely gift and ideal, easy-to-read, introduction to breastfeeding for new mums or mums-to-be.” Breastfeeding Matters, La Leche League
“On first viewing of Saggy Boobs and other Breastfeeding Myths, what strikes you is the sheer exquisitness of the production itself. Each and every page features illustrations of embroidery panels (by artist Lou Gardiner) – very humorous and very accurate. An inspirational read.” Association of Lactation Consultants Ireland
Endorsements:
“Val’s book will be a great boost for breastfeeding mums everywhere. It is very funny; it has stunning illustrations and is packed with good, practical advice from real life mums who have breastfed their own children”. Elle Macpherson
How to win ‘Saggy Boobs and Other Breastfeeding Myths’
Leave a comment on this page to earn one entry.
You can earn more chances in the draw by letting other people know about it
.
Post a link on Facebook, Twitter, etc (1 entry for each different place)
You must let us know where you have told people in the comments other
wise we won’t know how many entries to allocate you. And you must tell me if you sign up to the newsletter, or if you are already signed up so you can have an extra entry.
This prize draw is only open to people in the UK, sorry!
The winner will be chosen using random.org
You must leave your comments before midnight on the 31st October 2010 to qualify.
For 5 extra entries …..
let us know what breastfeeding myths you use to believe in!
Ina May is an incredible woman. Her book Spiritual Midwifery held me together through my pregancy and helped me believe in myself, despite midwives and doctors who seemed to believe pregnancy was an illness and the baby a growth to be removed in clinical conditions.
Pinter and Martin is an independent publishing company founded in 1997 by writer and filmmaker Martin Wagner and childbirth educator Maria Pinter. They publish authors who challenge the status quo. While they specialise in psychology and pregnancy & birth, they also publish other subjects, but only books which are very close to their hearts.
This is what people have been saying about Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding
“Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding is the latest jewel from Ina May Gaskin, the Queen of Modern Midwifery. In her trademark no-nonsense style, Gaskin teaches the basics—how to hold your baby and facilitate a good latch—and offers solutions to a slew of breastfeeding problems, from thrush to tongue-tied infants. In addition, there are sections on nursing multiples, working outside the home, and even how to handle what she calls “nipplephobia”—evidence of our society’s disapproval of public breastfeeding. (Bantam Books, October 2009). —Mothering Ina May Gaskin has done it again. Full of information and insight, this page-turner of a book is a must-read. What a great baby shower gift! The book covers everything from the basics of breastfeeding to sleeping arrangements, to nursing twins, to what to do when babies get sick, to weaning, to eradicating nipplephobia and creating a breastfeeding culture. The appendices and resources at the end are also extremely helpful. —Amazon Review Is this like all the other ‘Breastfeeding Guides’? Definitely not! I wanted to be impressed that the latest and greatest research was included such as ‘Biological Nurturing’ and it was. The book is so well written it’s like having Ina May right there beside you every step of the way helping you learn the skills of breastfeeding and dealing with societies un-baby-friendly views about breastfeeding. Can’t think of anything that hasn’t been not only covered but solutions offered. —Amazon Review”
To enter the draw for a brand new copy of Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding:
Leave a comment on this page to earn one entry.
You can earn more chances in the draw by letting other people know about it.
Post a link on Facebook, Twitter, etc (1 entry for each different place)
You must let us know where you have told people in the comments otherwise we won’t know how many entries to allocate you. And you must tell me if you sign up to the newsletter, or if you are already signed up so you can have an extra entry.
This prize draw is only open to people in the UK, sorry!
The winner will be chosen using random.org
You must leave your comments before midnight on the 30th September 2010 to qualify.
This competition has now closed and Annie is the winner!
Pinter and Martin have free A3 promotional posters for The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, along with other Pinter & Martin breastfeeding and childbirth titles, to give away to anyone who wants to display them at relevant meetings, local Children’s Centres, antenatal clinics, books shops, books stalls, or wherever you can think of!
Please email your UK address to info@pinterandmartin.com and you will receive a pack of 5 x A3 posters (folded once) while stocks last. Please let us know in your email if you require more than 5.
Please note that all La Leche League GB Leaders will have been mailed a pack of posters on Monday 13th September. If you don’t receive your mailing in good time, or need more than 5 posters, please email us as above.
If you don’t live in the UK.
If you want a pack of 5 posters and don’t live in the UK, please order them here – the posters are a nominal 1p, but our normal postage and packing costs apply (£3 Europe, £4 rest of the world). Please note that our edition of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is not for sale in the US and Canada: visit La Leche League International for further info.
In addition any breastfeeding, pregnancy and childbirth book order from Pinter & Martin will include a free A3 poster (folded).
“Dr. Frederick Leboyer was the first physician to challenge society’s deeply held beliefs about awareness in the newborn. His pioneering works on birthing, including “Birth Without Violence”, have forever revolutionized the course of prenatal care and the way babies are introduced to the world. He also pioneered introducing infant massage to the Western world.”
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