Pregnancy, birth & baby care

Why Mothers' Medication Matters

by Wendy Jones

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Prescribing medication for breastfeeding women can be complex, and often there are no studies to show whether drugs are safe for lactating women. Yet mothers often need medication: whether short term use of painkillers, mental health drugs, or drugs to treat chronic conditions Wendy Jones gives mothers and those treating them the information they need to make decisions about medication, while allaying fears that many have about adverse effects on babies of drugs passing through breastmilk as well as explaining the cautions on patient information leaflets in all medication boxes. Why Mothers’ Medication Matters is a practical, reassuring book that aims to put mothers and babies at the heart of their own care.

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Author Biography

Wendy Jones BSc, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, lectures and provides training to support organisations on the safety of medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding. 

Pinter & Martin Publishers

Pinter & Martin Publishers

Pinter & Martin is an independent publishing company based in London. Most of our books are distributed worldwide. We publish authors who challenge the status quo. We specialise in pregnancy, birth & parenting, health & nutrition, psychology and yoga. Pinter & Martin was founded on May 9th, 1997 by the writer and film-maker Martin Wagner and childbirth educator Maria Pinter, when we realised that Stanley Milgram's extraordinary book Obedience to Authority was out of print in the UK. Some milestones were the publication of Childbirth without Fear in 2004, which started our ever-growing pregnancy, birth & parenting list; Irrationality in 2007, which was our first genuine bestseller; and the publication of The Politics of Breastfeeding in 2009, followed by our first book for La Leche League International, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding in 2010. In 2015 Pinter & Martin acquired the yoga publisher YogaWords, which was originally a joint venture by Paul Walker (1961-2016) of YogaMatters and Martin Wagner. In April 2016 Pinter & Martin opened effraspace a multi-purpose venue dedicated to pregnancy, birth & parenting education. In 2017 we published the bestselling The Positive Birth Book and Manhood, followed by Womanhood in 2019.  We continue to publish books which are close to our hearts. Our books be viewed on our website:  https://www.pinterandmartin.com

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint Pinter & Martin / Pinter and Martin
  • Publication Date June 2017
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781780665856
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 7.99 GBP
  • Pages170
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Copyright Year2017
  • Dimensions172x111 mm
  • SeriesPinter & Martin Why It Matters

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