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| Main Author: | Huggins, Kathleen (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
The Harvard Common Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | 7th edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Looking forward: preparations during pregnancy
- Off to a good start: the first week
- Survival guide: the first week
- Special mothers, special babies
- The learning period: the first two months
- Survival guide: the first two months
- Expressing, storing, and feeding breast milk
- Traveling together, being apart
- The reward period: from two through six months
- Survival guide: monts two through six
- Nursing the older baby
- Survival guide: months six through twelve
- Nursing the toddler
- Appendix A. Resources for nursing mothers
- Appendix B. Determing babies' milk needs during the first six weeks
- Appendix C. The World Health Organization Growth Standards
- Appendix D. The safety of drugs during breastfeeding by Philip O. Anderson.