Cartoons for Nursing Moms
e Bast Is Yet to Come By JAN BENNETT
& HOWARD BENNETT, M.D.
Illustrated by AMY ALBRIGHT
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e Breast Is Yet to Come C A R TO O N S F O R N U R S I N G M O M S
By JAN BENNETT & HOWARD BENNETT, M.D. Illustrated by AMY ALBRIGHT
To our grandson, Julian, and nursing mothers everywhere.
Breastfeeding is one of the most amazing experiences a woman can have. Of course, babies don’t come with an instruction manual, so a mother’s early nursing experience can be very stressful, to say the least.
Not only do women go through nine months of pregnancy, but after the exhaustion and pain of delivering a newborn, they’re immediately charged with feeding a sometimes sleepy, sometimes ravenous tiny human—one who leaks bodily fluids from both ends and may have little patience, even if they’re just being burped between breasts. Add in the demands of older siblings (if there are any) or well-meaning family members and friends who always have advice to share, and it’s a wonder parents survive the first few weeks.
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When we got the idea to create this book three years ago, we were driven by the maxim “laughter is the best medicine.” But given the stress described above, we wondered whether new moms and dads would even have the bandwidth to step back and see the humor in what they were going through. We hope the answer is yes—because we want mothers and fathers to know they’re part of a wider community of proud, though exhausted, parents. The ideas for the cartoons came from our personal experiences as parents, stories from friends and family, and situations Howard encounters every day at work as a pediatrician. This project was a labor of love, and we hope you have as much fun reading the book as we did putting it together. —JAN & HOWARD
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“What do you mean a cracked nipple isn’t an emergency?”
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“The baby finally fell asleep, so she refused to take him off the breast.”
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Retired astronaut Frank Meadows used to think docking in space was tricky.
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