cover image - Breastfeeding, 9th Edition
ISBN: 9780323680134
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 05-28-2021
Page Count: 1088
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $84.99

Breastfeeding, 9th Edition

by Ruth A. Lawrence, MD and Robert M. Lawrence, MD

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cover image - Breastfeeding, 9th Edition
ISBN: 9780323680134
Copyright: 2022
Publication Date: 05-28-2021
Page Count: 1088
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $84.99
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Written and edited by leading physicians, Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, 9th Edition, offers comprehensive, dependable information and guidance in this multifaceted field. Award-winning author and co-founder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Dr. Ruth Lawrence, and her son, Dr. Rob Lawrence, ensure that you’re brought fully up to date on everything from basic data on the anatomical, physiological, biochemical, nutritional, immunological, and psychological aspects of human lactation, to the problems of clinical management of breastfeeding—all in a highly readable, easily accessible desk reference.
    • Helps you make appropriate drug recommendations, treat conditions associated with breastfeeding, and provide thoughtful guidance to the breastfeeding mother according to her circumstances, problems, and lifestyle
    • Includes numerous charts and tables throughout, with an emphasis on the scientific, chemical, and physiological underpinnings of breastfeeding. Appendices contain additional charts and tables, including the complete collection of clinical protocols on breastfeeding and human milk from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
    • Features new chapters on breast conditions and their management in the breastfeeding mother, breastfeeding and chest-feeding for LGBTQ+ families, breastfeeding during disasters, and establishing a breastfeeding practice or academic department
    • Provides significant updates on physiology and biochemistry of lactation; medications and herbal preparations in breast milk; transmission of infectious disease through breast milk; allergy and its relationship with breastfeeding, exposure, and avoidance; premature infants and breastfeeding; and practical management of the mother-infant nursing couple
    • Offers authoritative and fresh perspectives from new associate editors: neonatologist Dr. Larry Noble, obstetrician Dr. Alison Stuebe, and pediatrician and lactation specialist Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole
    • Covers patient-centered counseling, the cellular composition of human breast milk, microbiota of the breast and human milk, and the multifunctional roles of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs)
    • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

  • 1. Breastfeeding in a New Era
    2. Anatomy of the Breast
    3. Physiology of Lactation
    4. Biochemistry of Human Milk
    5. Host-Resistance Factors and Immunologic Significance of Human Milk
    6. Population Health and Informed Feeding Decisions
    7. Practical Management of the Nursing "Dyad"
    8. Maternal Nutrition and Supplements for Mother and Infant
    9. Weaning
    10. Normal Growth, Growth Faltering, and Obesity in Breastfed Infants
    11. Medications, Herbal Preparations and Natural Products in Breast Milk
    12. Transmission of Infectious Disease Through Breast Milk and Breastfeeding
    13. Breastfeeding Infants with Problems
    14. Premature Infants and Breastfeeding
    15. Medical Complications of Mothers
    16. Breast Conditions in the Breastfeeding Mother
    17. Human Milk and Atopic Disease
    18. Breastfeeding and Return to Work or School
    19. Induced Lactation and Relactation (Including Nursing an Adopted Baby) and Cross-Nursing
    20. Chestfeeding and Lactation Care for LGBTQ+ Families
    21. Reproductive Function During Lactation
    22. The Collection and Storage of Human Milk and Human Milk Banking
    23. Infant Feeding After a Disasters
    24. Establishing a Breastfeeding Medicine Practice or Academic Department
    25. Breastfeeding Support Groups and Community Resources
    26. Educating and Training the Medical Profession

  • Ruth A. Lawrence, MD, Northumberland Trust Chair in Pediatrics, Distinguished Alumna Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynecology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA and Robert M. Lawrence, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Immunology, Rheumatology, and Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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