Mama's Leche (Family and World Health) (English and Spanish Edition). Cet article n’est pas disponible.Mama's Leche (Family and World Health) (English and Spanish Edition)

Text in English & Spanish. A bilingual children’s picture book, “Mama’s Leche” is uniquely told from the infant’s perspective. Soft, tender illustrations depict baby looking into Mama’s eyes, feeling nurtured and protected. The gentle and playful text helps to remind children of these profound feelings. The book encourages and celebrates the mother-infant bond that is naturally established through nursing. Research on breastfeeding as a health measure is incontrovertible! The most precious gift a mother can give her baby are the disease-protective and nurturing substances that breast milk alone supplies, together with the deep physical-emotional bond that breastfeeding grows between them. Still, children suffer an alarming range of allergies, ear infections, gastrointestinal disorders, and tendencies to obesity -- all of which are less prevalent among children who have been breastfed for one year or more. And this is just the physical part of the equation. Current research is also finding that breastfed babies are sharper intellectually and more balanced emotionally, and new studies are coming in every day. This book will be an ideal gift for childbirth educators, doctors, nurses, and caring friends and family to give to their clients and loved ones.

Michelle Hackney is a full-time homeschooling mother of five, living in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is an advocate for breastfeeding. Michelle believes that developing nurturing and mindful connections through trust and respect is the ideal way for parents to raise secure, independent and happy children.

Mia Ortiz is an illustrator and public school art teacher who currently lives in El Paso, Texas, with her husband and two sons. She offers private art instruction for people with special needs and is passionate about encouraging and building self-confidence in children by using art as a tool and outlet to communicate emotions.