All health professionals in your practice will refer to this convenient handbook again and again for easily accessible answers, solutions, and teaching and learning aids.
The third edition contains a wealth of practice-focused advice based on frontline clinical experience and the latest evidence for breastfeeding.
Topics include:
- Cleft lip and cleft palate in breastfeeding infants
- Risk reductions in breastfeeding infants
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes of breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding in preterm infants
- Health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers
- Recommended breastfeeding strategies for health professionals
- Breastfeeding education
- Recommended breastfeeding practices
- Risk factors for lactation problems
- Human milk microbiota and bioactive factors
- Breast development stages and lactogenesis
- Supporting early breastfeeding before and after delivery
- Breastfeeding assessment tools
- Ankyloglossia and breastfeeding
- Insufficient milk
- Vitamin and mineral supplementation
- Breastfeeding guidance during preventive health care visits
- Management of breastfeeding complications
- Elements of a breastfeeding-friendly office environment
- National breastfeeding initiatives
- Feeding human milk without birthing
- Relactation
- Supplemental feeding methods
- Drugs and breastfeeding
- Contraception When Breastfeeding
- And more!
New in the 3rd Edition
- The latest AAP and ACOG breastfeeding policies
- An all-new chapter on the Non-nutritive Components in Human Milk, including bioactive factors and host defense mechanisms
- New guidance on breastfeeding and substance use, including electronic cigarettes and alcohol
- Updated life-saving breastfeeding support strategies for inclusion in disaster preparedness plans
- Current evidence on infant and maternal outcomes from breastfeeding
- Updated guidance on vitamin D, vitamin K, and iron supplementation in newborns
- Updated discussion of breastfeeding and environmental agents, including sunscreen
- New guidance for COVID-19 and breastfeeding
- Updated discussion of legislative protections for mothers in the workplace