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Breastfeeding Special Care Babies,

Edition 2

Editors: By Sandra Lang

Publication Date: 27 Mar 2002

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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.

Key Features

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

New Features

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

About the author

By Sandra Lang, Independent Breastfeeding Advisor and Teacher, Lancashire, UK

The basics of breastfeeding. The position and attachment of the baby at the breast. The expression of breastmilk. Breast conditions. The milk supply. Breastfeeding the vulnerable baby. Alternative methods of feeding and breastfeeding. Breastfeeding and common drugs. Recommendations for the support of breastfeeding.
Appendix - Breastfeeding support. Index.

Book Reviews

"This is a text which will no doubt be accessed principally by midwives and neonatal nurses, but the successful establishment and maintenance of breastfeeding is far more likely to prosper when all health care providers are singing from the same hymn sheet, and I would strongly commend that it is read by all those who involved in the process including paediatricians, health visitors, GP s and paediatric nurses and others."www.withwoman.co.uk

ISBN: 9780702025440

Page Count: 256

Illustrations : 70 ills.

Retail Price :

RCM "Successful Breastfeeding " 3e, October 2001, £9.95, 0443059675

Midwives & Neonatal intensive care nurses.