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

Concerned about making enough milk for your baby? Wondering how to make more? Two lactation experts are here to help. Separate fact from fiction with help from this comprehensive book about improving low milk supply. Written by two leading experts who have been there themselves and officially recommended by La Leche League International, The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk incorporates the latest research and discoveries about causes of low milk supply, the way your body makes milk, and how babies contribute to your milk production. Best of all, you'll find valuable suggestions for both time-honored and innovative ways to make more milk. Learn the facts about: Determining if baby is really getting enough milk Supplementing without decreasing your supply Maximizing the amount of milk you can make Identifying the causes of your low supply Increasing your supply with the most effective methods, including pumping, herbs, medications, foods, and alternative therapies Making more milk when you return to work, exclusively pump, have a premie or multiples, relactate, or induce lactation

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!

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.

Balancing Breast and Bottle: Reaching Your Breastfeeding Goals, 1st edition helped mothers worldwide successfully feed their babies at the breast and with a bottle. Positive reviews from mothers included:"I cannot recommend this book highly enough, and I will be gifting it to all future moms I know who plan to breast and bottle feed!""Buy it! I thought I could find the same info online but save your time and energy. You'll be so thrilled you did. I now feel prepared to go back to work." "This book helped my baby become a breast and bottle feeding champ!"The second edition, like the first, is a must read for any mother who wants to breast and bottle feed her baby. This book will help you get breastfeeding off to a good start and guide you through the process of selecting and using a bottle that is right for your breastfed baby. It includes an expanded breastfeeding section, updated recommendations for collecting, storing, and stockpiling milk, and information about safe formula preparation and use. Along with these changes comes a new tagline: Feeding Your Baby.Balancing Breast and Bottle: Feeding Your Baby, 2nd edition is for new mothers who want information about:?Bottle selection specific for your baby?How to make a bottle with breast milk, formula, or both?Using your letdown pattern as a guide for bottle pacing?Overcoming breast and bottle feeding obstacles?Feeding your baby when apart?Pacifier use and the breastfed baby ?Finding a balance that is right for you and your babyAmy Peterson, BS, IBCLC, and Mindy Harmer, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC, offer the combined expertise of an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Certified Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Lactation Counselor. They bring two unique and informed perspectives in selecting and using a bottle and pacifier for a breastfed baby.

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.

An alternative to formula exists! When breastfeeding doesn't work out, situations such as a premature or an ill baby delay breastfeeding, or you simply choose not to breastfeed, exclusively pumping breast milk-using a breast pump to initiate and maintain lactation-is a viable option and can be done on a long-term basis. Exclusively Pumping Breast Milk offers women the knowledge, advice, and support necessary to initiate and maintain their milk supply with a breast pump. This second edition of the first-and most comprehensive-book about exclusively pumping offers well-researched information, and plenty of tips and tricks, to help you on your journey. In addition to the basics of exclusively pumping, the second edition includes information on lactation and breast milk composition, increasing and decreasing supply, overcoming common challenges, pumps and accessories, storing expressed milk, weaning, and also a chapter specifically for mothers with babies in the NICU. Exclusively pumping breast milk is possible and this book will provide the accurate information and support necessary for you to provide your baby with "expressed love."

Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Sixth Edition is the ultimate reference for the latest clinical techniques and research findings that direct evidence-based clinical practice for lactation consultants and specialists. It contains everything a nurse, lactation consultant, midwife, women’s health nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or Ob/Gyn needs to know about the subject. Topics include placing breastfeeding in its historical context, workplace-related issues, anatomical and biological imperatives of lactation, the prenatal and perinatal periods and concerns during the postpartum period, the mother’s health, sociocultural issues, and more vital information.

Many mothers stop breastfeeding within the first 6 weeks, and many among them say that they wanted to breastfeed longer. This book is a guide to rebuilding your milk supply after a gap in breastfeeding. It doesn't matter whether you stopped breastfeeding a week or even several years ago. It doesn't matter if you want to return to breastfeeding the same baby, relactate to feed an adopted baby, or any other circumstance. The process is the same, and relactation IS possible. This book will guide you through: -The practical steps including expressing and information on medication which may help. -How to safely and slowly reduce bottles as your milk supply grows. -Tips for managing a pumping regime while also parenting and juggling day-to-day life. -Supporting the baby's return to the breast. Lucy Ruddle is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, a Breastfeeding Counsellor, and holds a diploma in child psychology. She began training in breastfeeding support after successfully relactating to breastfeed her eldest son. She has been supporting parents through the process of rebuilding their milk supplies for years and is passionate about helping mothers through the emotional side of relactation as well as the practical steps.

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.