This useful, interactive, and practical book takes other breastfeeding books a step further by offering the first and only Nursing Diary, an easy-to-use tracking system for monitoring early breastfeeding progress. This unique all-in-one breastfeeding organizer takes the mystery out of the nursing experience by providing new parents with accurate, up-to-date information, reassurance, and the actual tools they need to get breastfeeding off to a good start. It offers practical step-by-step guidance and includes a complete Nutrition and Weight Loss Guide and a New Mother's Journal. This beautifully designed journal type book is written in a supportive mother-to-mother style with inspirational quotations and lighthearted illustrations throughout. This four-part, tab-divided book includes: PART I - THE PRACTICAL BREASTFEEDING MANUAL guides you through the early weeks of nursing your newborn and explains every aspect of breastfeeding basics. It tells you how to prepare for the breastfeeding experience, what to do when your baby arrives, and how to monitor your nursing baby's progress. It helps you identify and appropriately manage early breastfeeding difficulties and common newborn problems. PART II - THE NURSING MOTHER'S NUTRITION AND WEIGHT LOSS GUIDE shows you how to plan a sensible, well-balanced diet to ensure a plentiful milk supply, give you the energy you need to take care of your new baby, and allow you to safely and naturally return to you prepregnancy weight! It shows you how to determine your daily calorie requirement and food group servings to meet your own individual nutritional needs. PART III - THE SIX-WEEK NURSING DIARY WITH THE NURSE-N-TRACK SYSTEM(tm) is a two-part nursing diary for easy monitoring of early breastfeeding progress. It features the Nursing Mother's Daily Nutrition Diary, which allows you to easily follow a sensible eating plan by using check-off boxes to monitor your own nutritional intake; and the Nursing Baby's Daily Diary, which consists of the Nursing Wheel and Diaper Wheel for recording your baby's feeding, sleeping, and elimination patterns--simply by filling in time bars. PART IV - THE NEW MOTHER'S JOURNAL is a place to record precious memories of your first days of motherhood with specific questions, idea starters, and inspirational quotations to inspire creative journal writing. Also included are a "BREASTFEEDING BABY IN TRAINING--PLEASE, NO BOTTLES OR PACIFIERS" sign for the hospital, an extensive Resource Guide, and an attached dual-colored pencil for making diary entries. The Nursing Diary is a dependable reference for your baby's doctor and lactation specialist, and will allow fathers to participate by making diary entries. Full of words of encouragement and support, you will gladly welcome this breastfeeding survival kit into your repertoire of parenting guides--and it will eventually become a treasured keepsake in the years ahead.