Counseling the nursing mother

Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide, Fifth Edition comprehensively examines how counseling styles and approaches enhance interactions with mothers and stresses the importance of appropriate, effective communication techniques. The text presents topics within a counseling framework and includes practical suggestions for working with mothers. Further, it provides insights into applying knowledge and evidence-based research into everyday practice and how to meet counseling challenges. Thoroughly updated and revised, the Fifth Edition covers a wide-variety of topics in the lactation consultation field, beginning with breastfeeding promotion in the modern world, and examining the professional role of the lactation consultant, as well as basic anatomy, physiology, nutritional needs, high-risk babies, and breastfeeding techniques. Additionally, the text also serves as significant tool for teaching interns and other health care professionals. It is ideal as the first text in the journey of becoming an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), enabling learners to understand lactation in easy-to-read terminology before advancing to more scientific texts.