Your Breastfeeding Guidebook

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Lulu.com, Feb 15, 2015 - Family & Relationships - 436 pages
This comprehensive guide to the experience of breastfeeding is an excellent read for the mother-to-be. It's a no-judgement handbook designed to give practical, evidence-based advice that will work for parents of a variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. New parents, grandparents, and others interested in learning more about breastfeeding will find this book interesting as well. It's a perfect shower gift for the mom who plans to breastfeed.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Benefits to Mom
11
Benefits to Baby
27
The Breastfeeding Commitment
41
Gathering the Troops
51
Breastfeeding Gear
69
Pumping Gear
83
Nursing in the Hospital
97
Employment
211
Milk Storage and Handling
223
Feeding Pumped Milk
235
Managing
245
Nipple Conditions
261
Baby
271
Allergies and Elimination
293
Evaluating Milk
301

Breast Changes
107
Mechanics of Nursing
117
Early Days at Home
137
Breastfeeding and Lifestyle151
151
Breastfeeding and Society
173
Family Planning
187
Pumping Basics
201
Low Supply and Low Supply Management
317
Responding
331
References
353
Glossary
391
Index
419
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