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Author:   Kathleen Huggins
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Imprint:   Harvard Common Press,U.S.
Edition:   Eighth Edition, New Edition
Weight:   1.012kg
ISBN:  

9781558329126

ISBN 10:   1558329129
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   21 June 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents FOREWORD by Jessica Martin-Weber v PREFACE by Kelly Bonyata vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION  1. Looking Forward: Preparations during Pregnancy  2. Off to a Good Start: The First Week  SURVIVAL GUIDE: THE FIRST WEEK  3. Special Mothers, Special Babies  4. The Learning Period: The First Two Months  SURVIVAL GUIDE: THE FIRST TWO MONTHS  5. Expressing, Storing, and Feeding Breast Milk  6. Traveling Together, Being Apart  7. The Reward Period: From Two through Six Months  SURVIVAL GUIDE: MONTHS TWO THROUGH SIX  8. Nursing the Older Baby  SURVIVAL GUIDE: MONTHS SIX THROUGH TWELVE  9. Nursing the Toddler  APPENDIX A: Resources for Nursing Mothers  APPENDIX B: Determining Babies’ Milk Needs during the First Six Weeks  APPENDIX C: The World Health Organization Growth Standards  SUGGESTED READING  INDEX 

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Kathleen Huggins is a registered nurse and board-certified lactation consultant who is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in establishing the lactation consultant discipline as a core component of maternal-child health care in US hospitals. She established this reputation by creating and running a model breastfeeding clinic at San Luis Obispo General Hospital in California; by lecturing widely to professional peers and hospital administrators; and through her book The Nursing Mothers Companion. She has also co-authored The Nursing Mothers Guide to Weaning and Nursing Mother, Working Mother. She lives in San Luis Obispo, where she currently runs a new mothers store, Simply MaMa. She continues to lecture widely in the health care and lactation-consultant arenas.

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