Child's Book to show breastfeeding

[Asiago]

I have purchased a couple of children's books that show human and animal breastfeeding for my son, being that he does it but rarely sees it anywhere except LLL meeting. The latest I heard about is actually a book on chimpanzees, written by Jane Goodall.

http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/priscilla_colletto.html

When reading a children's book about chimpanzees by Jane Goodall to my then five-year-old daughter, I learned that mother's milk remains a chimp's most important food until about three years of age. The book described Goodall's field observation of a chimpanzee mother named Fifi and her four-year-old daughter Flossi.

"Flossi starts to suckle. She will not be able to do this for many more months. Fifis milk is drying up and she often prevents Flossi from nursing these days. Then Flossi pouts and utters sad crying sounds until Fifi relents and lets her suckle for just a little while. In about a year Fifi will probably have another infant."

Of the hundreds of children's books I have borrowed from the library and read to my daughter, this is the only one that described nursing a four-year-old. As another nursing mother I found myself reassured by both Fifi's and Flossi's behavior. I identified with the mother's ambivalence, at first resistant and irritated at the youngster's demands and yet, in the face of her daughter's grief, relenting and giving in. Perhaps those experts who admonish mothers to be firm and consistent are out of touch with our nature as primates.

After looking on Amazon.com, I believe this is the book:

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/1558588035/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

Has anyone read it? I just ordered it.

Edited by Asiago - 9/9/11 at 11:49am

[kvklay]

I haven't read it. but just ordered it....

[Asiago]

Oh good! I am looking forward to it. I hope it's the correct book  I didn't see any others that seemed close to what was described in the link.

Edited by Asiago - 9/11/11 at 6:09am