Pinter & Martin Book Launch Special

This new book in the Why It Matters series aims to support parents who are mixed feeding, with crucial information about breastfeeding, expressing, and using formula milk. - mixed feeding in the neonatal unit - what if your baby is sick or premature? - mixed feeding with twins and multiples (by guest author Janet Rimmer) - not only deals with the practicalities of mixed feeding, but also the emoti...

Grandmothers are coming into their own. There have never been so many of them. As Naomi Stadlen explains, they have always mattered, especially in helping their families to survive. Drawing on grandmothers’ own words, Why Grandmothers Matter describes the experience of having grandchildren across many cultures, and discusses the sometimes delicate relationships between grandmother, parent-child an...

Flourish: A practical and emotional guidebook to thriving in midwifery, by Kate Greenstock. Available from all the usual outlets, and discounted to £12.99 on Pinter & Martin's website: https://pinterandmartin.com/flourish

A top to toe guide to your body after pregnancy and childbirth. Pregnancy and birth may be everyday occurrences, but they are not easy, and the after-affects can be wide-ranging and sometimes difficult to live with. This book aims to hold your hand and lift you up as you navigate your new body, giving you information to help you to relish motherhood, not just survive it. It deals comprehensively w...

Initially, I planned a straightforward book about maternal feminism and, whilst researching a chapter, stumbled across a piece of information that had a domino effect and led to my turfing the work I'd done and beginning again. The piece of information in question was that scopolamine, one of the two primary ingredients of early obstetric drug cocktail Twilight Sleep, was both an hallucinogen and...

Challenging negativity and fear of childbirth, and brimming with everything you need to know about labour, birth and the early weeks of parenting, The Positive Birth Book is the must-have guide for pregnant women. A widely acclaimed bestseller since it was first published, it has empowered hundreds of thousands of women worldwide to make informed, positive choices about their births. In this Book...

In the early 1980s it was discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could be passed through a mother’s milk to her baby. Almost overnight in the industrialised countries, and later in the African countries most ravaged by HIV, breastfeeding became an endangered practice. But in the rush to reduce transmission of HIV, everything we already knew about breastfeeding’s life-saving effects was o...

In this Book Launch Special, Karen Hall chats with author Shel Banks about the big question of why formula feeding matters. Nearly all babies in the UK receive formula milk at some point during their first year of life. Yet finding independent and factual information about formula feeding can be surprisingly difficult, as much of the material available to parents, carers and health professionals i...

Karen Hall chats with Professor Amy Brown about her tenth book (we counted!) Covid Babies, an important acknowledgement of the experiences of parents and health professionals during the Coivd-19 Pandemic. As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, pregnancy and maternity services underwent a rapid transformation in an attempt to deal with transmission of the virus and the growing pressure on healthcare s...

Maternal Journal is filled to the brim with ideas, support and inspiration to create your very own journal through your pregnancy, birth and parenthood. This easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated book will help you explore your creative voice and develop a regular journaling practice using artistic tools and techniques that fit in with everyday parenting. In this Book Launch Special, Karen Hall...

Carol Smyth talks to Karen Hall about her new book in the Why It Matters series.

That maternity staff are under pressure, with many leaving their jobs each year, is well known. Personal sacrifices, long working hours, lack of resources and an overstretched system take their toll, and occasionally staff are involved in traumatic and emotionally difficult situations. Many tolerate these conditions in the service of doing a job they love, but what happens to their mental health o...

Amy Brown and Karen Hall chat about Amy's new book, Let's Talk About Feeding Your Baby

Amy Brown and Karen Hall talk about the latest edition of Breastfeeding Uncovered

Lyndsey Hookway and Karen Hall chat about Lyndsey's new book, Still Awake