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Real Food For Mother And Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating For Two, And Baby's First Foods (2009)

by Nina Planck(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1596913940 (ISBN13: 9781596913943)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: I checked this book out of the library for the chapter on introducing solids to a baby. I found the writing so thoughtful that I read the rest of the book - even though I'm past the conception and pregnancy stages with my son. Sure, there is some attitude of privilege there, but also that pragmatic New York minimalism bred from living in small apartments. Nina really knows how to boil "food rules" down to easy-to-implement sound bites. Highly recommended to childbearing and hopeful women.
review 2: When Nina Planck writes objectively, this is a good book with practical information. But too much of the time she injects her bossy opinion and makes you feel like a terrible person if you stray from her prescription. Dear lord is she self-righteous! She speak... mores in extremes: if you don't hold your baby all the time, he'll be depressed. Better sleep with him in the room or he'll have developmental problems! God forbid you don't breastfeed--and never mind the women who can't--your kid is screwed! Her solutions for women who can't breastfeed are also a bit much: source breastmilk from some national bank, and never mind the cost. Or hire a wet nurse. Because there are so many out there. Obviously, Planck herself had no problems with breastfeeding, which is incomprehensible to me because it was, and still is, one of the hardest things I've ever done and even my OBGYN agreed. I was most annoyed at her "woe is me" attitude over her C section. I took this book with a grain of salt. I do wish Nina Planck had written her book for the modern working woman, not someone who lives in a small rural village, grows her own food, milks her own cow, churns her own butter, and has a community of wet nurses nearby. less

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