The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning,9780316777278

The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning

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ISBN13: 9780316777278
ISBN10: 0316777277
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Little Brown & Co
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Summary

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in breastfeeding. Yet first-time mothers often lack the support and the knowledge they need. Many of the available books fail to address the practical challenges that confront many women (especially women who work outside the home) when they choose to breastfeed. For these women, The Breastfeeding Book is a godsend -- with comprehensive, reassuring, authoritative information on:
-- how to get started, including tips for latching on
-- increasing your milk supply
-- breastfeeding in absentia
-- pumps and the new technology associated with breastfeeding
-- making sure your nursing baby gets the nutrition he/she needs

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
A Word from Dr. Bill and Martha xiii
Part I: The Science of Breastfeeding: Why Breastfeed? 1(20)
Why Breast Is Best
2(19)
What's In It for Baby?
2(8)
What's In It for Mother?
10(2)
Great Ingredients in the Recipe for Breast Milk
12(2)
Questions You May Have About Getting Ready to Breastfeed
14(7)
Part II: The Art of Breastfeeding: How to Breastfeed 21(50)
Getting Started
22(22)
First Meeting
22(1)
First Feedings
23(10)
Helping Your Milk-Ejection Reflex (MER)
33(3)
Questions You May Have About Getting Started
36(8)
Common Concerns Breastfeeding Mothers May Have
44(27)
Feeding Frequency
44(3)
Getting Enough Milk
47(3)
Increasing Milk Supply
50(3)
Growth Spurts
53(1)
Supplemental Bottles
53(2)
Baby Prefers Bottle
55(1)
Weight Gain (Growth Patterns)
56(1)
Weighing Baby
57(1)
Father Giving Bottle
57(1)
Extra Water
58(1)
Extra Vitamins
58(1)
Giving Pacifiers
58(1)
Large Breasts
59(1)
Ready to Quit
59(3)
Baby Prefers One Breast
62(1)
Clipping Tight Tongues
62(1)
Breastfeeding and Fertility
63(1)
Less Milk During Menstruation
64(1)
Relactating
65(1)
Colic (aka The Hurting Baby)
66(5)
Part III: Healthy Breastfeeding 71(50)
Nutrition and Fitness While Breastfeeding
72(20)
Extra Calories, Extra Nutrients
72(3)
Foods to Avoid
75(2)
How to Detect Foods That Cause Fussing
77(2)
Questions You May Have
79(6)
Staying Fit and Trim While Breastfeeding
85(3)
A L.E.A.N. Approach to Life
88(4)
Taking Medications While Breastfeeding
92(12)
Safe Medicine Taking While Breastfeeding
92(4)
The Most Common Questions Asked About the Most Common Drugs
96(8)
Troubleshooting the Most Common Breastfeeding Problems
104(17)
Sore Nipples
104(4)
Painful Nursing
108(1)
Engorgement
108(4)
Mastitis
112(5)
Plugged Milk Ducts
117(1)
Breast Abscess
118(1)
Candida (Yeast) Infection on the Nipples
119(2)
Part IV: Breastfeeding in Today's World 121(76)
A Consumer's Guide to Breastfeeding Products
122(28)
Nipple Creams and Ointments
122(1)
Breast Pads
123(1)
Breast Shells
123(1)
Nipple Shields
124(1)
Nursing Pillows
124(1)
Nursing Footstools
125(1)
Special Feeding Devices
125(3)
Shopping for Bras
128(2)
Choosing the Right Breast Pump
130(8)
Storing Your Milk
138(4)
Breastfeeding Wherever You Go
142(8)
20 Tips for Breastfeeding While Working
150(18)
Your Weeks at Home
150(4)
Planning Your Return
154(7)
Making Your Working Life Easier
161(4)
Keeping Up Your Milk Supply
165(1)
Lowering Your Stress Level
166(2)
Nighttime Breastfeeding
168(16)
Why Babies Wake Up
168(1)
Surviving and Thriving with Nighttime Breastfeeding
168(2)
Tips for Easier Nighttime Breastfeeding
170(2)
The Benefits of Sleeping with Your Baby
172(4)
Questions You May Have
176(8)
The Father's Role in Breastfeeding
184(13)
Normal Father Feelings
184(1)
What Dads Can Do
185(4)
``Nursing'' for Fathers
189(2)
Sex After Childbirth
191(3)
For Mothers Only
194(3)
Part V: Special Situations 197(52)
Breastfeeding for Babies and Mothers with Special Needs
199(29)
Premature Babies
199(8)
Twins, Triplets, and
207(3)
The Adopted Baby
210(3)
Babies with Down Syndrome
213(1)
Babies with Cleft Lip or Cleft Palate
214(2)
Babies with Heart Defects
216(1)
When Mother or Baby Is Ill
216(1)
Babies in the Hospital
217(1)
Babies with Metabolic Problems
217(1)
Babies with Jaundice
218(2)
Babies with Hypoglycemia
220(1)
Mothers with Special Problems
221(2)
Postpartum Depression
223(3)
Breast Lumps
226(1)
Cosmetic Breast Surgery
226(2)
Funny (And Not So Funny) Things That Happen on the Way to the Breast
228(10)
Breastfeeding Personalities
228(1)
Nursing Nuisances
229(7)
Laughter Is the Best Breastfeeding Medicine
236(2)
Toddler Nursing and Natural Weaning
238(11)
The Big Picture, Or Why Extended Breastfeeding Is Becoming More Common
238(1)
Why Toddlers Breastfeed
239(2)
Why Mothers Continue to Breastfeed
241(1)
The Challenges of Nursing a Toddler
242(3)
The Journey to Weaning
245(3)
Weaned at Last
248(1)
Index 249

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