The Nursing Mother's Quick Reference Guide and Planner - by Kathleen Huggins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>The Nursing Mother's Quick Reference Guide and Planner</i> offers concise and authoritative, warm and encouraging guidance for mothers who breastfeed, covering baby's nutritional needs, pumping and returning to work, weaning, and other topics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This is a shorter version of the best-selling book on breastfeeding, <i>The Nursing Mother's Companion </i>by Kathleen Huggins. This concise, easy-to-use-on-the-fly version of that classic book is ideal for busy, time-pressed new moms (and their helpers and partners). It also includes planner pages to help keep track of nursing and pumping sessions and other important details.</b> <p/> Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not always instinctive for either mothers or babies. Kathleen Huggins's <i>The Nursing Mother's Companion</i> has been a<b> top-selling book on breastfeeding</b> for more than 7 editions over 30 years, with more than 1.1 million copies sold. It is <b>respected and recommended by professionals</b>, including The International Lactation Consultant Association, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, and The American Academy of Pediatrics, and it is well loved by new parents for its <b>encouraging and accessible style</b>. <p/> Now, in this shorter quick-reference version, <b>moms and their partners can get the answers they need in a flash</b>, <b></b>without sacrificing the breadth and accuracy of the original book. Plus, <b>this edition adds a planner component</b>, <b>for scheduling nursing sessions</b>, <b>pump rentals </b>and <b>pumping sessions</b>, <b>weight and wellness checks</b>, <b>anticipated dates for weaning</b>, and <b>more</b>. <p/> Kathleen Huggins equips breastfeeding mothers with all the information they need to overcome potential difficulties and nurse their babies successfully. This up-to-date book covers: <ul><li>Expressing, storing, and feeding breast milk</li><li>How to cope with breastfeeding obstacles and challenges</li><li>Managing pumping and nursing when you return to work</li><li>New-mom care for the postpartum period</li><li>Introducing solid foods</li><li>How to choose a breast pump</li><li>Deciding when to wean--and how to do it</li></ul><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Kathleen Huggins</b> 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 <i>The Nursing Mother's Companion. </i>She has also co-authored <i>The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning </i>and <i>Nursing Mother, Working Mother.</i> 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.</p>
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