Main description:

Medical literature for health care practitioners on the evaluation and treatment of breastfeeding issues has been disjointed, conflicting, and difficult to find. The field of breastfeeding medicine itself is nonexistent-there are no "breastfeeding doctors" who are specifically trained to understand this complex and interactive process. While much of the literature about breastfeeding describes how it "should" work, there is currently nothing available to explain why it often fails and how to treat it.

Clinician's Guide to Breastfeeding: Evidence-based Evaluation and Management is written for health care practitioners who work with breastfeeding mothers; physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and lactation consultants. It provides clear information and clinically tested strategies to help professionals guide new mothers to breastfeed successfully. The first of its kind to consider the entirety of the breastfeeding experience,Clinician's Guide to Breastfeeding is written by Dr. Linda D. Dahl, a leading expert on the subject. It is a comprehensive review of breastfeeding, covering objective analyses of ideal or "normal" nursing, as well as the evaluation and treatment of abnormal nursing, including case studies to illustrate the treatment decision-making process.

Contents:

Title PageDedicationPrefacePart 1: Normal NursingChapter 1: Breastfeeding Basics 1.1 Breastfeeding---Desire Versus Reality 1.2 The Dyad in Focus 1.3 Components of Successful Breastfeeding 1.3.1 Finding the Breast 1.3.2 The Gape 1.3.3 Breast Position and Suck Reflex 1.3.4 Keeping the Breast in Position 1.3.5 Observing the LatchChapter 2: Anatomy and Physiology of Breastfeeding 2.1 Anatomy 2.1.1 Anatomy of the Infant 2.1.2 External Anatomy of the Mothert-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> 2.1.3 Internal Anatomy of the Mother 2.2 Physiology 2.2.1 Hormone Effects and Regulation 2.2.2 Lactogenesis 2.2.3 Galact opoesis (Maintenance of Lactation)Chapter 3: Milk Supply and Regulation 3.1 Milk supply 3.1.1 The Breast's Milk-Making Capacity 3.1.2 Global Regulation---Maternal 3.1.3 Local Regulation---Baby 3.2 High-volume Milk Producers: Oversupply, or Hyperlactation 3.3 Maternal NutritionChapter 4: The Progression of Nursing 4.1 Early Breastfeeding---The First Week and Month of Nursing 4.1.1 The Initial Latch 4.1.2 Week 1 4.1.3 Weeks 2 through 4 4.2 Long-term ChangesPart 2: Abnormal NursingChapter 5: Breastfeeding Evaluation---The History 5.1 Importance of the Evaluation 5.2 Taking the History Breastfeeding Questionnaire 5.3 Evaluation of the History---Baby ; 5.4 Evaluation of the History---MotherChapter 6: Breastfeeding Evaluation---The Physical Exam ; 6.1 The Mother's Breasts 6.1.1 Flat or Inverted Nipples 6.1.2 Breast Size 6.1.3 Hypoplasia 6.1.4 Breast Scars 6.1.5 Nipple piercing(s)an style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> 6.1.6 Breast Engorgement or Tautness 6.1.7 Raynaud's Phenomenon 6.1.8 Inflammation 6.1.9 Infection 6.2 Baby 6.2.1 Head 6.2.2 Jaw ; 6.2.3 Palate 6.2.4 Upper Lip 6.2.5 Tongue 6.2.6 Neck 6.2.7 Gape 6.2.8 Suck 6.3 Mother and Baby NursingChapter 7: Treatments 7.1 Treatment Goals 7.2 Baby Treatments 7.2.1Nursing Positions 7.2.2 Cranial Osteopathy 7.2.3 Nipple Shields 7.2.4 Alternative Forms of Feeding and Supplemental Nursing Systems 7.2.5 Frenulectomy 7.2.6 Nipple Aversion 7.3 Mother Treatments 7.3.1 Flat or Inverted Nipples 7.3.2 Superficial Infections and Inflammation 7.3.3 Inflammation/Infection 7.3.3.1Engorgement 7.3.3.2 Plugged Ducts 7.3.3.3 Mastitis 7.3.4 Supply Issues 7.3.4.1 Pumping Methods for Low Supply 7.3.4.2 Emptying to Manage Oversupply 7.3.4.3 GalactagoguesChapter 8: Abnormal Nursing Case Scenarios 8.1 Common Breastfeeding Problems 8.2 Case 1 8.3 Case 2 8.4 Case 3 8.5 Case 4 8.6 Case 5