Awesome Breastfeeders’ reading list

The Awesome Reading List is a collection of reading resources for the entire Awesome Breastfeeder’s family; Moms, Dads, Genius Babies, Supporters, and Professionals. If you have a book recommendation comment below and we will consider adding it. Happy Reading!

Blogs

• Lydiarygenius

• Black Moms Blog

• Blacktating

• Mocha Manual

Breastfeeders’ Books

• Melanoid Breastmilk: The First Building Blocks to a Strong Family Foundation & Community

• The Black Woman’s Guide to Breastfeeding: The Definitive Guide to Nursing for African American Mothers by Katherine Barber (Author)

• The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals Allers  (Author)

• The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy by Kimberly Seals-Allers  (Author)

Children’s Books 

• A Shai & Emmie Story (2 Book Series) by Okechukwu Ofili (Author) and Sharee Miller (Illustrator)

• Afro: The Girl With The Magical Hair by Okechukwu Ofili (Author) and Sharee Miller (Illustrator)

• Big Hair, Don’t Care by Crystal Swain-Bates  (Author), Megan Bair (Illustrator)

• Let’s Talk Eggplant & Cats by Glendora Dvine

• Little Gina Bakes Cupcakes With Mommy by Regina Harris-Crayton

• Little Leaders: Bold Black Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Mommy When… by Nicole Williams (Author) and Sharee Miller (Illustrator)

• My Hair is Fuzzy My Hair is Cute by Toni Winston (Author) and Sharee Miller (Illustrator)

• Night Time Routine by Sharee Miller

• Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee ,  Tonya Lewis Lee, and , Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

• Princess Hair by Sharee Miller

• And More!

Coloring Books

• Birth Coloring Card Set: Images & Affirmations by Ren the Doula

• Breastfeeding with Affirmations coloring Book: Floral Designs by Ren the Doula

• Breastfeeding Mamas: Adult Coloring Book Paperback by Chenae Marie 

• Facts & Tip for Mother & Child Coloring Book by Sterling Grey-Simmons

• Nourishment: Coloring Book by Grayce Bentley, CLED 

• Ren The Doula Breastfeeding with Affirmations Coloring Book: Floral Design

Comic Books

• Black Sands

Lactation Professionals’ & Birth Workers’ Books

• An Introduction to Biological Nurturing: New Angles on Breastfeeding, 1st Ed

• Biological Nurturing: Instinctual Breastfeeding

• Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis

• Breastfeeding: An Atlas of Diagnosis and Treatment

• Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Enhanced 5th Ed

• Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence, 4th Ed.

• Clinical Lactation: A Visual Guide, 1st Ed

• Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review, 4th Ed

• Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care, 1st Ed

• Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice, 3rd Ed

• IBLCE Exam Flashcard Study System

• Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, Injustice by Andrea Freeman

• Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants

• The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism

• The Breastfeeding Answer Book

• The Breastfeeding Atlas, 6th Ed

• The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions To Prevent and Treat Dystocia, 3rd Edition

• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 8th Ed.

• Tongue-Tied: How a Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech, Feeding, and More, 1st Ed

• TONGUE TIE Morphogenesis, Impact, Assessment and Treatment

• The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals Allers  (Author)

Parents’ Books

• Mothering Through Pain and Suffering In Silence: A Collection of Stories from Survivors by Jasmine Tane’t Boudah

• The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy by Kimberly Seals-Allers (Author)

• Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America by Stacey Patton (Author)

Publishers

• Taylor Publishing

Survivors & Trauma

• Crossing The Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest by Melba Wilson

• When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing The Effects of Early Sexual Abuse On Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin 

Social Justice

• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present by Harriet A. Washington

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy DeGruy

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• They Were Her Property by Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo