Pocket Guide to Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Second Edition

Jan Riordan and Kathleen G. Auerbach

 

This pocket-sized reference is a must for all practitioners who work with breastfeeding women. It is a quick and easy reference that answers clinical questions about breastfeeding, and covers topics such as medications, birth control, maternal infections, breast lumps, and mastitis. It can be used independently or as a companion to Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Second Edition, the classic breastfeeding text by the same authors.

Key Features:

Reference for Midwifery / OB nursing programs and clinicians
Covers such topics as medications, birth control, and maternal infections

Table of Contents:

Breast, assessment
Breast, creams
Breast, eczema and impetigo
Breast, expression by hand
Breast, hypoplasia
Breast, lump
Breast, mammaplasty
Breast, pain
Breast, preference
Breast, pumps
Breast, refusal
Breast, self examination
Breastmilk, collection and storage
Candida/Thrush
Cesarean Birth
Chickenpox
Contraception
Cup Feeding
Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Depression, postpartum
Employment
Engorgement, breast
Finger Feeding
Formula and Non-Human Milk Feedings
Fortifiers, Human Milk
Galactologues
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Herpes Simplex 11
HIV/AIDS
Hindmilk, feedings
Immunizations
Inadequate milk supply, actual
Inadequate milk supply, perceived
Induced lactation
Infant, expected milk intake
Infant, insufficient weight gain
Jaundice
Mastitis
Medications, maternal
Milk banks
Nipple, blister ("bleb")
Nipple, leaking
Nipple shields
Nipples, sore (chronic, prolonged)
Nipples, inverted
Plugged ducts
Premature infant, discharge instructions
Supplementation
Surgery, infant
Surgery, maternal
Twins and other multiples
Weight checks
References
Appendices

Jones & Bartlett, ISBN: 076371490, ©2001, spiral soft cover, 182 pages, 4 in. x 7 in. (about 10 cm x 17.5 cm). (There is a more recent edition available.)