Why Audiobooks:

A Good Way to Get Breastfeeding Information
By Beverly Morgan

The audiobook format is a great way to get information. Making time do double duty is a winning idea. This goes double for new parents. How many books do you buy that you don't find time to read? I liked the hands-free format, the idea that it is a gateway for people who do not like to read, and the intimacy of listening to a voice to learn. That’s why I chose to publish, Reading Your Baby’s Body Language and Breastfeeding's Number One Question, How Will I Know My Baby Is Getting My Milk, direct-to-audio.

Audiobooks make great gifts, for yourself or others! Have you given your pregnant friend, co-worker, daughter or daughter-in-law a book about breastfeeding but she hasn't found the time to read ? With audio a person can listen to a great story, or learn about a new subject during commute time or while doing household chores. It is an ideal way to introduce a new mother to breastfeeding.

Audiobooks have long been a favorite way for visually impaired people to get information. Tine Thevinin, author of The Family Bed, and Mothering and Fathering: The Gender Differences in Child Rearing, dropped me a postcard after her daughter-in-law listened to my audiobook. "Congratulations Beverly, my daughter-in-law is visually impaired. She benefited from the tape!"

"I breastfed my children," a publisher met at a library show confided to me, "and now my son and his wife are expecting a baby. I don't even know yet if they'll consider breastfeeding. I don't know how to bring it up. It is so important to me so I want to handle it as well as possible."

As we talked about the importance that breastfeeding played in our lives and in the lives of our young children, we acknowledged the emotional impact that breastfeeding can have in the lives of mothers. Together, we brain stormed about ways she could broach the topic.

For her first step she bought a copy of my audiobook Reading Your Baby's Body Language as a way of giving her busy, career-driven daughter-in-law, a quick and easy way to become comfortable with the idea of breastfeeding. This proved to be a good first step. The next time I saw her, several months later, she made her way across a busy room. Putting her hand on my arm she said, "Thank you! My daughter-in-law had her baby a few days ago and they're breastfeeding."

When the time comes and you hear "We're going to have a baby!" you may want to think audiobook. A one-cassette tape can give lots of information in about one hours time. And it just may sound more convincing when the words are coming out of someone else’s mouth!

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