These two books are a commentary on the physician's failure to promote breast feeding by the written word because both are written by mothers to offset the steady decline of breast feeding in the United States.
Mrs. Pryor's book is divided into two parts. The first is a survey of what we know about lactation and breast feeding; the second part is a day-to-day, month-by-month account of nursing a baby, from the first feeding in the hospital to a leisurely weaning months later.