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Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians

Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians

  • Author: Schanler, Richard; Krebs, Nancy; Mass, Sharon
  • Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
  • ISBN: 9781581108040
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781581109429
  • eISBN Epub: 9781581109429
  • Place of publication:  Illinois , United States
  • Year of publication: 2013
  • Year of digital publication: 2013
  • Month: October
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English

Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians, 2nd Edition is an essential one-stop guide to the latest and best in breastfeeding management, support, education, and advocacy. Jointly developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), with additional critical review by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), it features contributions from distinguished experts.

Pediatric health professionals will use this convenient resource again and again as a quick-access clinical problem-solver and an efficient teaching and learning aid.

Topics include:

  • Anatomy and lactation physiology
  • Breastfeeding benefits
  • Management and support how-to's
  • Breastfeeding techniques
  • Lactation-support technology
  • Risk factors and contraindications
  • Feeding patterns
  • Relactation
  • Complementary feeding
  • Medication issues
  • Contraception issues
  • Nursing refusal
  • Insufficient milk syndrome
  • Weaning
  • Counseling recommendations
  • Breastfeeding resources
  • And more!
New in the 2nd Edition
  • All-new chapters: The unique benefits of breastmilk for preterm infants; breastfeeding issues during disasters
  • Expanded how-to's for a breastfeeding-friendly office environment
  • The latest AAP and ACOG policies
  • Revised preventive healthcare checklists
  • Coverage of recent national initiatives: 2011 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding; Updated Healthy People 2020 targets for breastfeeding; provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that promote and support breastfeeding
  • Front Cover
  • Inside Front Cover
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
    • Preface
    • Chapter 1 The Scope of Breastfeeding
    • Chapter 2 Rationale for Breastfeeding: Benefits to Infants, Mothers, and Society
    • Chapter 3 Composition of Human Milk
    • Chapter 4 Anatomy and Physiology of Lactation
    • Chapter 5 Breastfeeding: Management Before and After Conception
    • Chapter 6 Peripartum Care: The Transition to Lactation
    • Chapter 7 Breastfeeding in the Hospital: The Postpartum Period
    • Chapter 8 Maintenance of Breastfeeding-The Infant
    • Chapter 9 Maintenance of Breastfeeding-The Mother
    • Chapter 10 Supporting Breastfeeding During Mother-Infant Separation
    • Chapter 11 Lactation Support Technology
    • Chapter 12 Medications and Breastfeeding
    • Chapter 13 Contraception and the Breastfeeding Mother
    • Chapter 14 Breastfeeding and Human Milk for Preterm Infants
    • Chapter 15 Breastfeeding in Special Circumstances
    • Chapter 16 Who Can and Who Cannot Breastfeed?
    • Chapter 17 The Breastfeeding-Friendly Medical Office
    • Chapter 18 Breastfeeding Issues During Disasters
    • Appendix A Breastfeeding Resources
    • Appendix B American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement: Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk
    • Appendix C American Academy of Pediatrics: The Transfer of Drugs and Therapeutics Into Human Breast Milk
    • Appendix D ACOG Committee Opinion #361: Breastfeeding: Maternal and Infant Aspects
    • Appendix E ACOG Clinical Review : Breastfeeding: Maternal and Infant Aspects
    • Appendix F ACOG Committee Opinion #570: Breastfeeding in Underserved Women: Increasing Initiation and Continuation of Breastfeeding
    • Index

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