My, how the pendulum has swung. A generation or two ago, formula and bottles were the royal road to motherhood. Breast-feeding was so, well, backwoods -- unhygienic, unscientific, just the teensiest bit icky.
But now breast-feeding has almost become a new front in the competitive mommy pageant. After all, you want to give your baby the realizing-full-potential-tippy-top best -- don't you? What could be more natural, nurturing and loving?
Until you've got cracked nipples and a baby that won't "latch on," and you feel like a lactating Fountain of Trevi. As you gaze down at your child suckling at your bosom -- latching on isn't the problem anymore -- you can't shake the image of sailors scraping a persistent barnacle off a ship's hull.
"Spilled Milk: Breastfeeding Adventures and Advice From Less-Than-Perfect Moms" (Rodale, $12.95) by Twin Cities writer Andy Steiner cuts through the dogma with a well-rounded view of what breast-feeding is really all about. The mother of a 5-year-old and 16-month-old interviewed women nationwide for a practical and often funny take on what it really means to feed your kid the way nature intended.
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