- Board book: 24 pages
- Publisher: Mary Olsen Books; Brdbk edition (July 15 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0971537402
- ISBN-13: 978-0971537408
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 16.1 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #342,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In simple rhyming verse, a blissful and contented nursling describes her love for nursing, how breast feeding benefits her, and when, where and how she nurses her mother. Colorful and dreamy soft-focus images realistically depict the joyful and sensual bond between the mother and child as well as the support and adoration of the father.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Charming, enchanting, and wonderful,
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This review is from: I'm Made of Mama's Milk (Board book)
Mary Olsen's book, I'm Made of Mama's Milk, is charming, enchanting, and wonderful. Olsen captures an endearing, light-hearted joy about breastfeeding, with flowing verse and lovely pictures. Reading the book with my sons was a delight. The boys giggled and pointed at the baby in the book, and were plainly enjoying the story.Positive breastfeeding references in our culture are few and far between. Whenever we see a baby on television, or comics, or children's books, most of the time the child is being bottle-fed, or in a high chair being fed baby-goo on a spoon. I'm always on the lookout for examples of breastfeeding for my sons. I frequently feel I need to explain all the bottles associated with babies, and with this book, I felt no pressure to explain a thing. The boys knew, understood, and related to the pictures and text in Mary Olsen's book. Jake, my three year old, laughed, and said, "Look, that baby's nursin'! Just like me an' Logan!" Not only does this board book depict scenes of breastfeeding, but also of cosleeping, nursing in a sling, nursing in the bathtub, and a sling-wearing daddy. There is also a very pleasant surprise at the end, one that made both my sons laugh out loud in delight. Reading this book, I realized there is such a tremendous gap in our cultural images, and this book is an excellent start to filling that gap. There isn't a stroller or a crib in the book, nothing to indicate the baby is raised any differently than my boys. I love that. Mary Olsen's words are just as alluring. She draws my sons in, makes them included, makes them part of the story, part of the wonder of breastfeeding. It is a book about them, my breastfeeding sons, and they, especially Jake, can tell immediately. He already asks for the book several times a day, and we've only owned the book for a very short while. This is definitely a book we will treasure for a long time to come. I only hope more books like Mary Olsen's I'm Made of Mama's Milk follow, and change our society's automatic associations when it comes to how babies and young children are fed, raised, spoken to, and how normal and wonderful breastfeeding our children actually is.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this book!!!,
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This review is from: I'm Made of Mama's Milk (Board book)
This is a beautiful story of a nursling enjoying her breastmilk throughout the day. My children love to read it, it completely describes our day! I can't wait for more books from this author :)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Could use a facelift, but the content is wonderful!,
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This review is from: I'm Made of Mama's Milk (Board book)
The photos are grainy, the poetry choppy. But this is one of only a very few that celebrate nursing, especially of an older baby/toddler. I would love to have a million books about mama milk to choose from, but until then, this one is well worth looking past the imperfections! My toddler loves it for the familiar images, and I love it for the positive portrayal of a normal human behavior that is hard to find in our culture!
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