Breastfeeding Book

Midwifery Today Breastfeeding Supplement Paper cover, 8 by 11 magazine format, 70 pages.
$15, plus shipping and handling
Item code: C514BFB

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• Preface
• Table of Contents
  
  Sample articles:
  
• Breastfeeding, Food for Thought
• Finger Feeding a Preemie

Preface: Breastfeeding is best

This can never be said enough—to mothers, fathers and grandparents, to teachers, children, and employers, to doctors, hospitals and each other.

This book is filled with the best of Midwifery Today, as well as with new information and beautiful photos.
We encourage you to share this special book with others and to spread the word: breast is best!

    Jan Tritten, Editor

Table of Contents

Section One:In the beginning: The important prenatal period

• Breastfeeding management for the midwife
  Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD,IBCLC
• Things to consider when evaluating breastfeeding pamphlets
  Kathleen G. Auerbach
• Helping moms get off to a good start
  Tamara Crafts, RN
• A self-test for the midwife
  Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC
• Breastfeeding: Food for thought
  Tamara Crafts, RN
• Encouraging breastfeeding
  Elena Taggart Medo
• The health benefits of breastfeeding
  Althea Seaver

Section Two: Nursing the newborn

• Helping the newborn get started at the breast
  Georgia Vorhies
• Finger-feeding a preemie
  Jude Kurokawa, CNM
• Everything I needed
  Kerry Vincent
• The midwife's role
  Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC
• Our common link
  Sue Huml, IBCLC

Section Three: Troubleshooting

• Mastitis: Positive interventions
  Jacqueline Dever
• Is your client at risk?
  Jacqueline Dever
• Herbal treatments
  Jacqueline Dever
• A breastfeeding success story
  Sheila Wallace, RN, IBCLC
• Breast and bottle? A mother's story
  Harriet Cook
• A burning issue
  Nancy Mohrbacher
• Assessing breastfeeding risk factors
  Sheila Wallace, RN, IBCLC
• Helping moms cope with exhaustion
  Debbie Heffernpage
• Cracked nipples: Looking at an old problem in a new way
  Sue Huml, IBCLC

Section Four: Weaning

• Weaning: A time of passage
  Sue Huml, IBCLC
• Breastfeeding-still?
  Cathy Merritt

Section Five: The ethics of formula feeding

• Ethics in a bottle
  Tamara Crafts, RN
• An unsung resource
  Peter Magnus, M.D
• The formula for brain food
  Rita Laws, CCE
• Big profits versus infant life
  Robin Lim

Section Six: Helpful suggestions for your practice

Readers share their advice

Section Seven: Books and videos for your library

Information to read and share

Section Eight: In the news...

Items to keep you up-to-date.

Section Nine: Abstracts to add to your knowledge

Important findings from around the world.

Section Ten: Resources for more information

Places to turn for help and information

Section Eleven: Products and services

Companies and products you and your clients can use

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