Our Library
Here is a list of just some of the items in our library, grouped into topics. If you would like to borrow an item, please contact our group librarian, Felicity by email at abamns.librarian@gmail.com. Click on the item name to see a more detailed description.
Breastfeeding Audio-Visual
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Milk Expression (videotape) | Fisher and Paykel Healthcare | Looks at hand expressing and the use of manual and electric pumps. |
| Blokes Babies Breastfeeding (DVD) | Warwick Shanks | A light-hearted DVD written and produced by blokes for blokes. |
| A Visual Guide to Breastfeeding (DVD) | Dr Jack Newman | Jack Newman and Edith Kernerman answer a wide variety of questions on breastfeeding. |
| Breastfeeding: Mom and I Can Do That (DVD) | Sue Cox | Sue shares insights on the baby's first hours with Deb and Jason, a couple about to have their second child. |
| Hand Expressing and Cup Feeding (DVD) | Wendy Nicholson | How to hand express and cup feed breast milk. |
| Mother and Baby (DVD) | Sue Cox | Two programmes on one DVD. The First Week shows what is normal in the first week after baby is born. Getting it Right teaches how to position and attach baby for breastfeeding. |
| Follow Me Mum (DVD) | Rebecca Glover | Designed to help mothers understand how breastfeeding works, learn how to work with their baby's instinctive behaviour and enjoy their breastfeeding experience. |
Breastfeeding
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Breastfeeding... naturally | Jill Day | The most authoritative, entertaining and accessible guide to breastfeeding ever produced in Australia. |
| Breastfeeding: How to give your baby the best start in life | Sheila Kitzinger | Conveys most warmly the growing relationship between mother and baby. |
| Breastfeeding: A new mother's handbook | Hilary Tupling | Provides a positive and supportive approach to breastfeeding. |
Technical and Professional Interest
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Breastfeeding Management in Australia | Wendy Brodribb (ed.) for the ABA | Comprehensive reference and study guide. |
Pregnancy and Childbirth
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| The New Pregnancy and Childbirth | Sheila Kitzinger | Comprehensive book for either mothers or health professionals. |
| Sex and Intimacy After Childbirth | Martin Snellen | Explores the factors that can affect your sex life when you have a new baby. |
Parenting
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Sleep Book | Dr William Sears and Martha Sears, R.N. | Flexible, adaptable techniques for helping your baby go to sleep - and stay asleep. |
| The Secret of Happy Children | Steve Biddulph | Deals with common family problems and how to solve them. |
| Helping Your Baby to Sleep - Why Gentle Techniques Work Best | Beth Macgregor and Anni Gethin | Important research into babies' emotional and brain development as well as gentle sleep techniques. |
| Toddler Tactics | Pinky McKay | Pinky McKay explains what to do at each stage of development and offers fuss-free advice and practical strategies for parenting a toddler. |
| The Discipline Book | William Sears and Martha Sears | How to have a better behaved child from birth to age 10. |
| 100 Ways to Calm the Crying | Pinky McKay | Looks at why babies cry. |
| Babies Need Books | Dorothy Butler | Discusses the value of books and how to use them. |
| The Crying Baby | Sheila Kitzinger | Useful suggestions for coping, physically and emotionally. |
| The Fussy Baby Book | William Sears and Martha Sears | Parenting your high-need child from birth to age five. |
Grief
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Loss of a Baby | Margaret Nicol | Sensitively discusses the effects of reproductive loss. |
Health and Nutrition
| Title | Author | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Food for Under 5's | Rosemary Stanton | A practical and sensible approach. |
| Feeding Baby and Child | Virginia Phillips | Guide for Australian parents on how and when to feed babies and toddlers. |
| The Breast Book | Dr. Miriam Stoppard | Covers anatomy of the breast and the changes through life phases. |
| All About Early Breast Cancer | NHMRC National Breast Cancer Centre | Information about Early Breast Cancer. |
Blokes Babies Breastfeeding (DVD) 2007
Warwick Shanks
Written and produced by blokes for blokes, Blokes Babies Breastfeeding is a light hearted DVD designed to give new dads or soon-to-be dads some practical, hands on tips for understanding and helping with breastfeeding and bonding with their baby. Running time: approx. 15 minutes.
A Visual Guide to Breastfeeding (DVD) 2007
Dr Jack Newman
In this DVD, Jack Newman and Edith Kernerman answer a wide variety of questions, from how to ensure that a baby is getting milk to helping overcome some of the most common problems associated with breastfeeding.
These are some of the breastfeeding topics covered in this visual aid:
- How to know a baby is getting enough breastmilk
- Breast compressions
- Avoiding sore nipples
- Attaching baby
- Colicky babies
- How to increase intake of breastmilk by the baby
- Using a lactation aid
- Risks of formula feeding
Breastfeeding: Mom and I Can Do That (DVD)
Sue Cox
In this DVD, Sue shares insights on the baby's first hours with Deb and Jason, a couple about to have their second child. She explains the importance of letting the baby become accustomed to his/her new world through all five senses. She describes how important it is to the bonding and breastfeeding process to make the baby's first few hours as pleasant as possible. She also explains dad's important role in helping the baby bond with his parents.
Sue Cox, Australian nurse-midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant is the author of Breastfeeding with Confidence and is an internationally known breastfeeding educator and consultant. Sue is also an Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor of many years.
Hand Expressing and Cup Feeding (DVD) 1997
Wendy Nicholson
Thirty minute DVD featuring Wendy Nicholson, RN, RM, IBCLC, demonstrating how to hand express breast milk and how to cup feed expressed breast milk to various aged babies.
Mother and Baby (DVD)
Sue Cox
Features two of well-known breastfeeding educator Sue Cox's programmes on one DVD. The First Week shows what to expect and what is normal in the first week after baby is born. It also illustrates the importance of skin-to-skin contact and the first feed.
Getting it Right teaches how to position and attach baby for breastfeeding and features Sue helping three mothers attach their babies to the breast. Includes beautiful close ups of babies correctly attached at the breast.
Sue Cox, Australian nurse-midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant is the author of Breastfeeding with Confidence and is an internationally known breastfeeding educator and consultant. Sue is also an Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor of many years.
Follow Me Mum (DVD)
Rebecca Glover
Follow Me Mum is designed to help mothers understand how breastfeeding works, learn how to work with their baby's instinctive behaviour and enjoy their breastfeeding experience. Running Time: 20 minutes
Baby Sleep Book
Dr William Sears and Martha Sears, R.N.
Does your baby have trouble sleeping? Does she wake up too early or too often? Almost as frustrating as the tiredness is the contradictory advice you receive: either suffer in silence as your baby 'cries it out' or turn martyr and give up your own sleep to soothe her. The Baby Sleep Book steers away from such extremes, aiming instead to balance the needs of the whole family. It gives flexible, adaptable techniques for helping your baby go to sleep - and stay asleep.
Breastfeeding... naturally
Jill Day (ed.), 2nd edition, 2004
This is the book you get free when you subscribe to ABA! The Mothers Direct website says it is "The most authoritative, entertaining and accessible guide to breastfeeding ever produced in Australia. The completely revised and rewritten second edition is a 200 page book, compiled from the Association's information and booklets by long-term counsellor and writer Jill Day. It includes photos and diagrams as well as an informative text gleaned from the collective wisdom of the thousands of mothers who have been members of the Australian Breastfeeding Association. Chapters include: A commitment to breastfeeding; How breastfeeding works; Preparing for breastfeeding; How to breastfeed; Special deliveries; Out and about with your breastfed baby; A question of supply; Common breastfeeding conditions; Tummy troubles; Working and breastfeeding."
Breastfeeding: How to give your baby the best start in life.
Sheila Kitzinger, Revised edition, 1998.
This is a beautiful book with wonderful photographs. As well as the up-to-date information, it conveys most warmly the growing relationship between mother and baby. The author has a friendly, personal writing style and any reader would be encouraged to feel that any problems could be overcome.
Breastfeeding: A new mother's handbook
Hilary Tupling, 1988
Written in a direct and humorous style, this book provides a positive and supportive approach to breastfeeding while helping new mothers understand the different feelings they experience. Technical information is clearly explained.
Milk Expression (videotape)
Fisher and Paykel Healthcare
Running time: 15 minutes. Looks at hand expressing and the use of manual and electric pumps.
Breastfeeding Management in Australia
Wendy Brodribb (ed.) for the ABA, 3rd edition, 2004.
This is an extremely comprehensive reference and study guide; particularly suited to health professionals.
The New Pregnancy and Childbirth
Sheila Kitzinger, Revised edition, 1989.
Comprehensive, lengthy book suited to good readers - either mothers or health professionals. Beautiful illustrations.
Sex and Intimacy After Childbirth
Martin Snellen
Mothers Direct website says: "In this timely book, Martin Snellen explores the factors that can affect your sex life when you have a new baby. From changes in body image to serious health issues like postnatal depression; from divergent levels of interest to... just not being able to find the time. Most importantly, he offers practical suggestions for getting the spark back - and they really work."
The Secret of Happy Children
Steve Biddulph, 1988
A most readable and reassuring book by an experienced family therapist. Deals with common family problems and the best ways to solve them, and also works through our guilt feelings about not being perfect parents. A loving, positive book and highly recommended.
Helping Your Baby to Sleep - Why Gentle Techniques Work Best 2007
Beth Macgregor and Anni Gethin
In Helping Your Baby to Sleep, authors Beth Macgregor and Anni Gethin present important research into babies' emotional and brain development, and offer gentle sleep techniques that take into account a baby's natural sleep habits.
Toddler Tactics 2007
Pinky McKay
Mothers Direct website says: "Being a parent of a toddler can be exciting, inspiring and exhausting - all at once! Parenting expert Pinky McKay explains what to do at each stage of development and offers fuss-free advice and practical strategies on communication, discipline and good manners, good eating habits, routines for play and sleep, toilet training and family dynamics."
The Discipline Book.
William Sears and Martha Sears, 1995
The Mothers Direct website says: "How to have a better behaved child from birth to age 10. Everything you need to know about discipline to raise a happy, well-adjusted, well-behaved child - from America's foremost baby and childcare experts. Disciplining children means equipping them with the tools to succeed in life. In this unique guide, Dr Bill and Martha Sears explain what you can do to shape your child's behaviour so that good conduct comes naturally."
100 Ways to Calm the Crying.
Pinky McKay, 2002
Looks at why babies cry, adjusting to life outside the womb, how to work out if something is wrong, feeding and sleeping, playing and walking with your baby, and massage. Contains many mothers' stories of how they managed to cope with life with a new baby, particularly "high needs" children.
Babies Need Books
Dorothy Butler, 2nd edition, 1988
Discusses the value of books, how to obtain and use books (including lists for each age group up to about six), how books contribute to language development and increase children's learning abilities. One of the best books of its type.
The Crying Baby.
Sheila Kitzinger, 1989
An excellent book, written in a warm and positive style, based on the experiences of 1400 mothers. Useful suggestions for coping, physically and emotionally.
The Fussy Baby Book: Parenting your high-need child from birth to age five.
William Sears and Martha Sears, 1996
Offers ideas and techniques and above all empathy to the parents of the crying, hard to settle baby. Offers them reassurance and survival tips, perhaps most of all by redefining him/her as the "high need baby".
Loss of a Baby
Margaret Nicol, 1989. (Now out of print.)
Written by an Australian clinical psychologist who has studied the effects of reproductive loss on a woman's physical and mental health. All aspects of such loss are covered and the grief involved is sensitively discussed.
Food for Under 5's.
Rosemary Stanton, 1990
A fund of good ideas and reassuring support for parents. Includes suggestions for most eating problems - a practical and sensible approach.
Feeding Baby and Child
Virginia Phillips, 1992. (Two copies. No longer in print.)
This guide provides Australian parents with information on how and when to feed babies and toddlers. Nutritional information is enhanced by food suggestions with a specific Australian perspective.
The Breast Book
Dr. Miriam Stoppard, 1996
Covers anatomy of the breast and changes through adolescence, menstrual cycle, reproduction and menopause.
All About Early Breast Cancer
NHMRC National Breast Cancer Centre, 1996. Book or two audio cassettes.
From the foreword: "This booklet contains information about early breast cancer. It is for women who have been told they have early breast cancer and may also be useful to their partner, family and friends."