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.

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.

A resource for any health care professional working with new mothers and infants, Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants provides information and strategies needed to assist normal infant feeding. Taking a deliberately multidisciplinary approach, the author draws on varied clinical experiences and empirical evidence to help consolidate information in a complete, usable framework for breastfeeding evaluation and support. This books provides instructors with an advanced, broad knowledge of breastfeeding - knowledge required for selecting the right level of intervention for supporting and improving sucking skills in healthy infants and those with anatomical variations, developmental respiratory issues, pre-maturity, and mild neurological deficits.

Sometimes breastfeeding doesn't work for various reasons. Our technological society has come up with a variety of tools for these situations. In Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools, lactation consultant Catherine Watson Genna shares her knowledge on which tools to use in various situations, critically reviewing the existing research on a tool category and providing clinical guidance for effective use of each. Each tool entry includes a picture, description, how to use, contact information, price, advantages, disadvantages, and suggested uses. Areas covered by the book include the following: sore nipple treatments nipple everters supplementers cups and spoons fingerfeeders Mothers look to lactation consultants to provide unbiased, scientific information about breastfeeding products. When you can provide this information, family finances, the IBCLC profession, and breastfeeding outcomes all benefit."

Presents a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to feeding problems. Ms. Wolf and Ms. Glass assist the feeding specialist in acquiring the knowledge and skills to take an active and effective part in the process of assessment and management of infant feeding. James F. Bosma, M.D., says, "This unique book describes the insights and skills in evaluation and care of dysphagic infants that are being demonstrated by a growing number of occupational, physical, and speech therapists and nurses." Book jacket.

Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants, Fourth Edition is an essential resource for healthcare professionals working with new breastfeeding families and infants. Using a multidisciplinary approach, it incorporates the latest research on infant sucking and clinical strategies to assist infants with breastfeeding. With an emphasis on skills, it focuses on normal sucking function in addition to difficulties based in anatomical, cardiorespiratory, neurological, or prematurity issues. The Fourth Edition has been extensively updated with new photos throughout and additional information on breastfeeding modifications for infants with structural issues, including micrognathia, orofacial clefts, and torticollis. The contributing authors also reflect on the latest breastfeeding research, including the mechanics of sucking, the normal anatomy of the floor of the mouth, the role of tongue tie in feeding difficulty, as well as strategies to support infants with neurological conditions.

Breastfeeding Answers: A Guide for Helping Families, Second Edition is the definitive reference for lactation specialists, featuring the most effective clinical approaches and the research that supports evidence-based practice. This comprehensive guide includes everything needed by lactation consultants, peer supporters, public health staff, midwives, nurse practitioners, dietitians, and physicians to help families achieve a rewarding nursing experience. Fully updated in gender-inclusive language and reviewed by world-class experts, it describes the results of thousands of research findings to support its practical strategies for overcoming virtually all common and unusual lactation challenges. New in this second edition: techniques to simplify early nursing and reduce feeding problems, dynamics vital to effective lactation help, novel strategies for boosting milk production, LGBTQ nursing, feeding the early term baby, Chinese manual therapy, treatments for mammary dysbiosis, cannabis use during lactation, milk sharing, and much more.

This text examines the research and evidence connecting birth practices to breastfeeding outcomes. It takes an in-depth look at the post-birth experiences of the mother and baby, using the baby’s health as the vehicle and the intact mother-baby dyad as the model to address birth practices that affect breastfeeding. The Second Edition has been completely revised to include new information on infant outcomes, including epidural anesthesia and Cesarean surgery, clinical strategies for helping the mother and baby recover from birth injuries, medications and complications, and information on Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiatives with a Mother-Friendly Module.

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.

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.