In recent decades, global healthcare professionals and organisations have formed a wide, evidence-based consensus that breastfeeding is usually the best option for both mother and baby. However, women and professionals alike often face a sea of shifting attitudes and values, and complex social, cultural, political and economic factors that may influence women's feeding decisions. This book examines the global evidence, and the factors that affect women's decisions around initiating breastfeeding and maintaining it through the first year of their children's lives. It outlines potential areas for development and policy change at practitioner and strategic levels, and shows how health professionals can effectively communicate and provide information to help women make unpressured but informed decisions. Breastfeeding - Contemporary Issues in Practice and Policy is essential reading for healthcare professionals, policy movers and shapers, and all those with an interest in breastfeeding who wish to influence the development of related policies, practices and healthcare services.
Clinician’s Guide to Breastfeeding: Evidence-based Evaluation and Management is written for health care practitioners who work with breastfeeding mothers; physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and lactation consultants.
2002. Reclaiming Breastfeeding For The United States: Protection, Promotion And Support, 1st ed. Boston: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Callaghan, Jane E. M., and Lisa Lazard. 2012. 'Please Don't Put the Whole Dang Thing out There!
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This Model Chapter brings together essential knowledge about infant and young child feeding that health professionals should acquire as part of their basic education.
Two leading lactation experts offer practical information, guidance, and encouragement to help new mothers overcome their fears, doubts, and practical concerns about breastfeeding, drawing on the latest research and furnishing updated facts ...
Breastfeeding Rights in the United States shows that the right to breastfeed in this country exists only in a negative sense: you can do it unless someone takes you to court.
This book is about the progress the United States health care system has made towards reclaiming breastfeeding as the normal way to feed babies and young children.
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Kristin J. Wilson argues that while breastfeeding is never going to be the feasible choice for everyone, it should be accessible to anyone.
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