Breastfeeding
Comprehensive
This
130 minute video focuses on how to breastfeed for exclusive, long-term success.
Designed to meet the needs of busy moms, practitioners, and breastfeeding educators,
Breastfeeding Comprehensive is perfect for class use, individual instruction,
and review. Clearly marked chapters allow the viewer to pause for breaks, discussion,
or review. The following topics are discussed:
- Benefits of breastfeeding
- Exclusive breastfeeding
- The real story
- Risks of not breastfeeding
- Artificial milk vs. mother's milk
- Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative
- Preparation before delivery
- Getting off to the right start
- Correct positioning
- Proper latch-on
- Suckling reflex
- Let-down technique
- Dr. Peter Hartmann's redefined lactating breast anatomy
- How the breast makes milk
- Colostrum to mature milk
- Fore milk and hind milk
- How often to breastfeed
- Signs baby's getting enough milk
- Problems and solutions
- Finding help and support groups
- Postpartum depression and nursing
- Safe medications for the lactating mother
- Nutrition and exercise
- Breastfeeding
multiples, premature & special needs babies
- Nursing the adopted baby
- Breastfeeding after breast surgery
- Continuing to breastfeed while pregnant
- Tandem nursing
- Breastfeeding as a teen
- The father's role
- How family and friends can help
- Maximizing your milk supply
- Pumping and returning to work
- Guidelines for storing milk
- Milk banks
- Attachment parenting
- Extended breastfeeding
- Natural weaning
- Politics and the law
- Globalization
- Challenges in the 21 st century
- Anecdotes and advice from experts and mothers from around the world
- And much more!
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