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What to expect when you're breast-feeding and what if you can't? : how to feed and settle your baby and have a life of your own / Clare Byam-Cook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vermilion, 2001.Description: 160p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780091856748 (pbk.) :
  • 0091856744(pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 649.33 COO
LOC classification:
  • RJ216
Contents:
1. Preparing For Breastfeeding:- Equipment--Preparing the nipples--Diet--Fluid intake--2. How Breastfeeding Works:- Breast size and milk production--How breasts produce milk--Supply and demand--The let-down reflex--forcemilk and hindmilk--One breast or two?-- Afterpains when feeding--3. How To Do a Breast-feed:- The ideal breast-feeding position--Doing a breast-feed--Winding--Swaddling--Settling your baby after feeds--Different feeding positions--4. The First Few Days:- When your baby is born--The first 24 hours--Before your milk comes in--When your milk comes in--5. Coming home from hospital--Rest--Visitors--Where your baby should sleep--Room temperature--Help in the home--Maternity nurses--District midwives--Health visitor--6. General Feeding Advice:- ~Feeding twins--Drugs and breast-feeding--Breast surgery--Weight gain--How much milk does your baby need?--What about extra water?--How long should a feed last?--Feeding on demand--Feeding on a strict four-hourly schedule--Settling into a routine--Waking at 10pm?--Night feeds--Dummies--Expressing milk--Introducing a bottle--Ideal length of time to breast-feed--Weaning from breast to bottle--Breast-feeding and the working mother--7. Common Feeding problems for mothers:- Inverted nipples--Baby can't latch on--Sore nipples--Primary engorgement--Vascular engorgement--Too much milk--Milk flow is too fast--Blocked milk ducts--Mastitis--Breast abscess--Not enough breast milk--Baby 'fussing' at the breast--Baby can't or won't suck efficiently--The ill mother--8. Common Feeding problems for baby:- Jaundice--The sleepy baby--The unsettled baby--Poor weight gain--Milk allergy/food intolerance--Colic--Evening colic/evening fretting--Gastro-oesophageal reflux--Constipation --Thursh--Dehydration--Refusing bottles--Baby in special care baby unit--9. Bottle Feeding:- Equipment--Sterilising--Different types of formula milk--Making up the feeds--Giving the feed--Excessive weight gain--Poor weight gain( when bottle-feeding)--Final note.
Summary: Clare Byam-Cook is a trained nurse and midwife who has worked as a breast-feeding counsellor for the last 10 years. In this book she is wholly supportive and sympathetic if you can or can't breast-feed and provides you with advice and information.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 649.33 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 201943

Includes index.

1. Preparing For Breastfeeding:- Equipment--Preparing the nipples--Diet--Fluid intake--2. How Breastfeeding Works:- Breast size and milk production--How breasts produce milk--Supply and demand--The let-down reflex--forcemilk and hindmilk--One breast or two?-- Afterpains when feeding--3. How To Do a Breast-feed:- The ideal breast-feeding position--Doing a breast-feed--Winding--Swaddling--Settling your baby after feeds--Different feeding positions--4. The First Few Days:- When your baby is born--The first 24 hours--Before your milk comes in--When your milk comes in--5. Coming home from hospital--Rest--Visitors--Where your baby should sleep--Room temperature--Help in the home--Maternity nurses--District midwives--Health visitor--6. General Feeding Advice:- ~Feeding twins--Drugs and breast-feeding--Breast surgery--Weight gain--How much milk does your baby need?--What about extra water?--How long should a feed last?--Feeding on demand--Feeding on a strict four-hourly schedule--Settling into a routine--Waking at 10pm?--Night feeds--Dummies--Expressing milk--Introducing a bottle--Ideal length of time to breast-feed--Weaning from breast to bottle--Breast-feeding and the working mother--7. Common Feeding problems for mothers:- Inverted nipples--Baby can't latch on--Sore nipples--Primary engorgement--Vascular engorgement--Too much milk--Milk flow is too fast--Blocked milk ducts--Mastitis--Breast abscess--Not enough breast milk--Baby 'fussing' at the breast--Baby can't or won't suck efficiently--The ill mother--8. Common Feeding problems for baby:- Jaundice--The sleepy baby--The unsettled baby--Poor weight gain--Milk allergy/food intolerance--Colic--Evening colic/evening fretting--Gastro-oesophageal reflux--Constipation --Thursh--Dehydration--Refusing bottles--Baby in special care baby unit--9. Bottle Feeding:- Equipment--Sterilising--Different types of formula milk--Making up the feeds--Giving the feed--Excessive weight gain--Poor weight gain( when bottle-feeding)--Final note.

Clare Byam-Cook is a trained nurse and midwife who has worked as a breast-feeding counsellor for the last 10 years. In this book she is wholly supportive and sympathetic if you can or can't breast-feed and provides you with advice and information.

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