Elsevier
Breastfeeding Special Care Babies
Edition: 2nd Edition
Subjects: Medicine,
Midwifery
ISBN13: 9780702025440
Published: 29 Mar 2002
Format - BC Paperback
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Breastfeeding Special Care Babies
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A$66.56
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This is a comprehensive and practical guide to all aspects of breastfeeding babies with special care needs. The language is clear and direct and the references up to date. The author covers the basics of breastfeeding and lactation, positioning and attachment, milk supply, the impact of common drugs, as well as breast conditions and problems and their resolution. Particular attention is paid to feeding the vulnerable baby and to alternative methods of feeding.
This revised edition includes new material on:
- Crystal clear and practical in writing and approach
- Full coverage of a topic which is poorly covered elsewhere
- Simple and explanatory with helpful up-to-date drawings, tables and photographs
- New material and expanded/updated current chapters
- Tackles issues which all midwives and neonatal intensive care nurses have to face at some point
This revised edition includes new material on:
- the instinctive nature of breastfeeding at birth
- skin-to-skin contact and care
- many new concepts relating to positioning and attachment
- how long it takes to acquire these skills
- non-nutritive sucking
- breast conditions, especially sore and cracked nipples
- areolar massage
- breastfeeeding and HIV
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