Pinter & Martin Book Launch Special Pinter & Martin Radio

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 emotions and feelings tied up in feeding decisions


- has a chapter especially for health professionals supporting parents


- evidence based and referenced, helps correct misinformation

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 and grandchild.


This warm and thoughtful book has much to teach us about family dynamics and the role grandmothers play in wider society, and will be valuable for parents as well as grandmothers when they enter into a new phase of family life.

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 with the common bodily changes you may experience after birth, explaining what is normal and what may need attention.


Lyanne and Karen chat about what's in the book, and why it's important.

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 a sweat retardant. Apple evolved from that point.


For the past 150 years, babies have literally been born tripping.


I was in shock. Cultural movements and related ideologies suddenly fell into place, as did the shift in the maternal paradigm.

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 Launch Special, Megan Stephenson of The Breastfeeding Show interviews author Milli Hill about the changes she's made to the book, and why it's such a popular and important manual for anyone approaching their birth. Whether you plan to have your baby in hospital, in a birth centre, at home or by elective caesarean, this essential, non-judgemental guide shows you how to raise your expectations and have the best possible birth experience.