Counseling the Nursing Mother. A Lactation Consultant's Guide

Overview

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.

Table of Contents

Part I Promotion and Support
Chapter 1 Breastfeeding Promotion in the Modern World
Chapter 2 Lactation Consultants as Part of the Healthcare Team
Chapter 3 A Sociological Perspective on Breastfeeding Support
Chapter 4 Empowering Women to Breastfeed
Chapter 5 Counseling Skills: Learning How to Help Mothers
Chapter 6 Client Consultations

Part II The Science of Lactation
Chapter 7 The Science of Lactation
Chapter 8 Maternal Health and Nutrition
Chapter 9 Properties of Human Milk
Chapter 10 Impurities in Human Milk

Part III Prenatal Through Postpartum
Chapter 11 Prenatal Considerations
Chapter 12 Hospital Practices That Support Breastfeeding
Chapter 13 Infant Assessment and Development
Chapter 14 Getting Breastfeeding Started
Chapter 15 Infant Attachment and Sucking
Chapter 16 Breastfeeding in the Early Weeks
Chapter 17 Breastfeeding Beyond the First Month
Chapter 18 Problems with Milk Production and Transfer

Part IV Special Care
Chapter 19 Changes in the Family
Chapter 20 Special Counseling Circumstances
Chapter 21 Breastfeeding Techniques and Devices
Chapter 22 Temporary Breastfeeding Situations
Chapter 23 High-risk Infants
Chapter 24 When Breastfeeding Is Interrupted
Chapter 25 Long-Term Maternal and Infant Conditions

Part V Role of the IBCLC
Chapter 26 Professional Considerations
Chapter 27 Critical Reading and Review of Research
Chapter 28 Breastfeeding Promotion and Change

Glossary

Appendix A Code of Ethics For International Board Certified Lactation Consultants
Appendix B Scope of Practice for International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs)
Appendix C Standards of Practice for International Board Certified Lactation Consultants
Appendix D Clinical Competencies for IBCLC Practice
Appendix E Baby Feeding Requirements
Appendix F WHO Weight Charts
Appendix G Spanish Breastfeeding Glossary International Lactation Consultant Association
Appendix H Professional Resources

About the Author(s)

Judith Lauwers, BA, IBCLC, FILCA, is a founding member of the International Lactation Consultant Association and served on the Panel of Experts for the first exam offered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. She has been ILCA’s Education Coordinator since 2005 and held previous positions in ILCA as conference planner in 1989-1990 and on the board of directors in 1995-1996 and 2002-2004. Judi was cofounder and Executive Director of Breastfeeding Support Consultants from 1981 to 2004.

Anna Swisher, MBA, IBCLC, has maintained a private lactation consulting practice, Abundant Blessings, since 2002. She also works as a hospital lactation consultant, and has experience in the clinical area of human milk banking. Anna began helping breastfeeding mothers in 1995 as a La Leche League Leader. She is active in her local ILCA affiliate, Heart of Texas Lactation Consultants.