Boost Your Breast Milk: An All-in-One Guide for Nursing Mothers to Build a Healthy Milk Supply


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I want to breastfeed my baby, but will I be able to? Every mom wants to produce enough nutritious milk for her tiny one—but many worry about low milk supply and other potential hurdles. In Boost Your Breast Milk, you’ll find the most up-to-date practices that support a healthy milk supply for baby and a healthy mom. Clear, calm advice on breastfeeding—preparing to nurse, latching techniques, when to feed, and more How to spot and manage the causes of low supply and milk slumps—from mastitis to your baby’s natural growth spurts What to eat when you’re nursing—from superfoods like avocado to naturally lactogenic (milk-boosting) foods like oats and papaya Plus, 75 recipes packed with goodness that the whole family can enjoy! A healthy beginning starts now!




Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants


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Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants, Second Edition is the essential resource for healthcare professionals working with new mothers and infants. Using a skills approach, it focuses on normal sucking function in addition to anatomical variations, developmental respiratory issues, prematurity, and mild neurological deficits. Completely updated and revised with new photos and images, this edition contains a new chapter, “Hands in Support of Breastfeeding: Manual Therapy.” Written by an internationally renowned IBCLC and deliberately multidisciplinary, it provides the entire team with both the research background and clinical strategies necessary to help infants with successful sucking and feeding.




Making More Milk: The Breastfeeding Guide to Increasing Your Milk Production, Second Edition


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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. “Every drop of your milk is precious. Even small amounts have a unique mix of ingredients and immunities that continue to bolster your baby’s health in a way that no formula can ever match.” Worried about making enough milk for your baby? Get the help you need with this practical guide from two lactation experts. Since publication of this “low milk supply bible” a decade ago, new insights and better ways to maximize milk production have emerged, making this updated and expanded edition a must-have for anyone struggling with supply issues. Endorsed by La Leche League International and written by leading lactation consultants, Making More Milk offers effective strategies for both time-honored and innovative ways to make more milk, including new chapters on pregnancy and birth issues, foods and nutrition, and alternative therapies. Cutting-edge discoveries will help you learn: • How your body makes milk • If your supply is actually low • If your baby is getting enough milk • The underlying cause of your low milk supply • How to make more milk with effective methods targeted to the cause of poor supply • How to make more milk when returning to work or school, exclusively pumping, and in other special situations




Mother Food for Breastfeeding Mothers


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A breastfeeding mothers guide to diet and herbs, especially their impact on milk supply, a baby's digestion, colic, allergies, and overall development, as well as a mothers own health. Includes recipes and remedies, and also sections on herbal medicine, Ayurvedic merdicine and traditional Chinese medicine.




Mother Food -


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This unique health guide, herbal guide, and cookbook for breastfeeding mothers draws on traditions from around the world. Focusing on pregnancy and the postpartum, the text explores lactogenic foods and herbs and how they enhance milk production, prevent postpartum depression, increase energy, promote gentle weight loss and detox, and more.




Eat to Feed


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Support breast milk supply and overall health with creative meals, snacks, and drinks For breastfeeding moms, "eating for two" continues long after the baby arrives. Eating well can be hard enough before there's a newborn in the house, but when moms experience dips in their milk supply, getting the right nourishment is key. In their debut cookbook, the founders of Oat Mama share eighty simple, delicious recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, deserts, snacks, and beverages. Eat to Feed is a warm, supportive, and inspiring resource for new mothers and mothers-to-be, featuring: Nutrient-dense whole foods and naturally lactogenic (milk-boosting) ingredients, such as oats, almonds, barley, and brewer's yeast. Helpful breastfeeding tips and advice on easy meal prep, building a healthy pantry, and sourcing ingredients. Recipes such as Healing Sipping Broth, Lactation Granola Bars, Baked Eggs with Yogurt and Dill, Chocolate Cherry Smoothie, and many more. More than seventy-five beautiful photographs.




Global Malnutrition


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Global Malnutrition: Pathology and Complications addresses various types of malnutrition including deficiencies (undernutrition), excesses (overnutrition), and imbalances in a person's intake of nutrients. Malnutrition is considered a global health crisis causing various types of chronic diseases in humans. Malnutrition is very serious when affecting children as the result can be a lifetime of serious health problems. This book addresses the importance of combating undernutrition and overnutrition. It discusses the prevalence of nutritional disorders and epidemics; assesses nutritional requirements for various populations; and focuses on special populations most affected by nutritional disorders. Features: · Covers various diseases caused by poor diet and nutrition · Provides suggestions on preventing malnutrition by improving diet and nutrition · Discusses nutritional disorders and epidemics · Presents information on nutritional requirements in special populations · Contains clinical case studies with critical thinking questions and answers, clinical treatments, and costs Featuring an engaging writing style and excellent flow of material, Global Malnutrition: Pathology and Complications contains practical applications for use in clinical practice. It includes suggestions for improving diet and nutrition in order to prevent malnutrition. Figures enhance content, and questions at the end of the chapters with corresponding answers at the end of the book reinforce the subject matter.




Your Guide to Breastfeeding


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Your Guide to Breastfeeding is an easy-to-read publication that provides women with information and support to help them breastfeed successfully. Pregnant and breastfeeding women, high-school age through adult, may find this illustrated guide helpful.




The Complete Book of Breastfeeding, 4th edition


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The Complete Book of Breastfeeding is a recognized classic in its field. Now it's been completely revised and updated in a new fourth edition—non-doctrinaire, informative, and friendly, it is the most accessible and authoritative book, as much required reading for expecting and new mothers as a pregnancy guide and baby name book. All healthy mothers should consider breastfeeding for the first year of a baby’s life, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and this is the book that will help women give their babies the healthiest start possible. Written by Sally Wendkos Olds and a new co-author, Laura Marks, M.D., The Complete Book of Breastfeeding, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to breastfeeding—how to get ready before the baby arrives; how to involve fathers and siblings; and the best diet and foods for mom. There are sections on dealing with problems at the hospital; extensive information on exclusive pumping (EPing); the best systems for giving supplementary bottles to a breastfed baby; the safest sleep scenarios for babies; breastfeeding in public, including laws affecting breastfeeding mothers. New data about preterm infants is presented, and special situations—multiples, breast cancer, overweight and large-breasted women, breast surgery, tattoos and piercings—are also discussed in detail. An expanded chapter on weaning features sections on breastfeeding past infancy. Also new is an appendix of online resources.




Breastfeeding


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Obtain the basic information necessary to manage a nursing mother and child from conception through complete weaning from this scientifically accurate medical text on the science and art of breastfeeding. BREASTFEEDING provides in-depth medical information about human milk, management techniques for handling breastfeeding in adverse circumstances, and relevant psychological and social issues that affect parent-infant bonding. It includes information on the anatomical, physiological, biochemical, nutritional, immunologic, and psychological aspects of human lactation, to the problems of clinical management of breastfeeding. Increased coverage of drugs in human breast milk, advances in biochemical, nutritional, and immunologic aspects of human lactation, and a new chapter on infectious disease and breastfeeding make the fifth edition of BREASTFEEDING a critical resource for any clinician whose patients include breastfeeding women. Features a new chapter and appendix on infectious diseases and breastfeeding which describe the impact of infectious disease in either the mother or infant, and the effects of antibiotics on breastmilk. Contains expanded coverage on drugs in human breast milk and advances in biochemical, nutritional, and immunologic aspects of human lactation for clinicians to inform patients about the benefits of breastfeeding and the potential dangers of ingesting medication during pregnancy and lactation. Spanish version of 4th edition also available, ISBN: 84-8174-176-0