What Doctors Don't Know About Breastfeeding
Jack Newman, Andrea Poloková
2022
This compelling book explores how medical training fails to adequately prepare doctors to support breastfeeding families, resulting in widespread misinformation, poor advice, and missed opportunities to protect breastfeeding relationships. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and research, Dr Jack Newman and Andrea Poloková shine a light on the systemic gaps in healthcare and advocate for better education and structural reform.
Why It’s Included
This book echoes what many breastfeeding advocates already know: families are often let down by healthcare providers who lack even basic breastfeeding knowledge. It validates the frustrations parents may feel when receiving unhelpful or contradictory advice and provides a powerful case for change within the medical profession.
Who It’s For
Recommended for parents who’ve experienced inconsistent or inadequate breastfeeding support, and for professionals seeking to understand why this happens—and what can be done about it. Also valuable for student midwives, GPs, paediatricians, and medical educators.
“I had the honour of spending time with Dr Jack Newman during his 2012 visit to Melbourne. Jack’s work in the breasteeding field is renowned for his work with helping babies effectively attach and the resources he has made available. This book explores why doctors around the world are not experts in human lactation and breastfeeding and why that is problematic.”
