About the Author

Barbara L. Behrmann has a Ph.D from Penn State University. A sociologist by training, she is a freelance writer who has spent much of the last eight years researching breastfeeding and other maternity-related issues and interviewing women about their breastfeeding experience. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and is the mother of two breastfed children. Visit her Web site at www.breastfeeding.com.