Pocket Guide for Lactation Management, Third Edition is an essential resource for new and experienced lactation care providers. Convenient and easy-to-use, it offers problem solving and counseling strategies for the wide-variety of situations commonly encountered by those working with child-bearing families. Topics include breastfeeding and public health, the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for hospitals and birth centers, normal breastfeeding, and addressing challenges from both the mothers and babys perspective.
Completely updated and revised, the Third Edition includes new metric charts, updated growth expectations, new guidelines, the latest research, and an expanded glossary.
Section1 Introduction: Breastfeeding and Public Health
Section2 How We Approach Lactation Counseling
Section3 Normal Breastfeeding
Section4 The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding for Hospitals and Birth Centers
Section5 Community Support for Breastfeeding
Section6 Breast and Nipple Issues
Section7 Breastfeeding Management Issues
Section8 Baby Feeding Problems
Section9 Can She Breastfeed?
AppendixA The Healthy Children Eight-Level Breastfeeding Counseling Process
AppendixB Feeding Observation Checklist
AppendixC Breastfeeding Positions
AppendixD Alternate Massage/Breast Compression
AppendixE Protocol for Estimating Breastmilk Transfer
AppendixF Protocol to Calculate Baby's Approximate Daily Needs
AppendixG-1 Table of Daily Breastmilk Volume Requirement Estimates (in Ounces)
AppendixG-2 Table of Daily Breastmilk Volume Requirement Estimates (in Grams and Milliliters)
AppendixH-1 Baby Weight Loss Table (lb-oz)
AppendixH-2 Baby Weight Loss Table (Grams)
AppendixI Weight Gain Expectations and Infant Elimination Patterns
AppendixJ Protocol for Building a Milk Supply/Relactation
AppendixK Protocol for Oversupply of Breastmilk
AppendixL Improving Milk Transfer
AppendixM Expression of Breastmilk
AppendixN Feeding Devices
AppendixO What to Do If an Infant or Child is Mistakenly Fed Another Woman's Expressed Breast Milk
AppendixP Handling and Storing Breastmilk
AppendixQ Contraindications to Breastfeeding
AppendixR Breastfeeding Goals
AppendixS Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
AppendixT The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
AppendixU The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
AppendixV Innocenti Declaration on Infant and Young Child Feeding 2005
AppendixW Glossary
AppendixX Conversions
AppendixY Resources: Helpful Organizations
AppendixZ Pediatric Warning Signs
Karin Cadwell, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANLC, IBCLC is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker, researcher and educator in the field of health communication and maternal child health. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of nursing and a PhD in health policy. She has worked in hospitals and in public health settings and as university faculty in health communication and maternal child health. She convened Baby-Friendly USA, implementing the UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the US. Dr. Cadwell served on the IBLCE Panel of Experts to develop the first certification exam. Her extensive clinical experience includes hospital and community practice, and she continues to counsel nursing mothers on Cape Cod.She is a currently a member of the faculty of the Healthy Children Project as was a member of the faculty of Union Institute and University's Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees in maternal child health. She was Visiting Professor and chair of the Health Communication Master's Program at Emerson College (a joint appointment with Tufts University School of Medicine and Public Health) where she taught courses in health behavior change, risk communication and health communication.'She is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of nutrition and maternal child health.' '
Cynthia (Cindy) Turner-Maffei, MA, ALC, IBCLC is a lead faculty member of the Healthy Children Project, Inc., where she develops and conducts training programs and research projects. A frequent speaker on the national and international level, she served as national coordinator of Baby-Friendly USA for 14 years, overseeing the assessment and designation of more than 100 U.S. Baby-Friendly maternity facilities. Cindy has worked as a nutritionist and breastfeeding educator in WIC and other maternal child health programs, in clinical and private practice settings as a nutritionist and lactation consultant, and as a professor at Union Institute and University. A member of breastfeeding coalitions on the regional and national level, including the US Breastfeeding Committee, she is also the author of several articles, monographs, and books, including Continuity of Care: Best Practices in the Maternity Setting (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2009). She has had the honor of collaborating in research into the impact of education and practice on maternal child health outcomes in the U.S. and in Latvia, Egypt, Sweden, and is currently developing research on the impact of breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices on dietary diversity in later life.
