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3) Lay the foundation for a lifetime of good health, promoting, protecting, supporting breastfeeding
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This Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Action Guide was created in order to assist local MCH programs with developing their MCH plan. The Breastfeeding Action Guide is intended to help local health agencies and community partners develop specific measurable achievable realistic time-framed (SMART) goals and objectives as well identify evidence-based strategies related to addressing this issue. This guide identifies strategies and action steps to lay...
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"Full of mother-wisdom, reassurance, and support, Sweet Sleep is the first book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It is a comprehensive how-to guide for making sane and safe decisions on how and where your family sleeps, backed by the latest research in pediatric care"--Provided by publisher.
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The MCH County Data Sets are recent information or data for Colorado counties for many of 36 Maternal and Child Health Performance and Outcome Measures. Performance measure topics include Teen Fertility Rates, Motor Vehicle Deaths, Breastfeeding Initiation, Infant Mortality, Access to School-based Health, Teen Suicides, etc. Data sets released January 2000- .
13) The nursing mother's companion: the breastfeeding book mothers trust, from pregnancy through weaning
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"Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not entirely instinctive for either mothers or babies. The Nursing Mother's Companion has been among the best-selling books on breastfeeding for over 30 years, with over 1 million copies sold. It is respected and recommended by professionals, including The International Lactation Consultant Association, T. Berry Brazelton and The American Academy of Pediatrics, and is well loved by new parents for its encouraging...
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For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdom and warmth of Nursing Your Baby. Now authors Karen Pryor and her daughter Gale Pryor have revised and updated their classic guide for today's generation of women. New information includes: Up-to-date studies on health benefits for breastfed infants and breastfeeding mothers. Tips for getting the best start on breastfeeding during the first hours, weeks, and months after birth. Breastfeeding...
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From an environmental journalist and mother of two young breast-fed children comes this searing, insightful look into the breastfeeding controversy and puts "common knowledge" about this most natural of processes to the test by breaking down the complex cultural, corporate, political, and technological factors that have transformed the way people think about breastfeeding and the human experience. Since the rise of infant formula in the early twentieth...
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From pediatric experts Martha Sears, R.N., and William Sears, M.D., a comprehensive, reassuring, authoritative information on breastfeeding, from getting started and increasing your milk supply, to toddler nursing and weaning. They also cover nutrition-- for your nursing baby and yourself-- as well selecting a pump, and other special circumstances. Breastfeeding contributes to nurturing a smarter and healthier baby-- and a healthier and more intuitive...
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Pictures of an infant nursing are some of the most serene images in all of human life. It represents that special bond between mother and child. Even though breastfeeding is the most natural thing imaginable, it is not instinctive. Many mothers, especially first time moms, often struggle with simple issues based on their lack of knowledge and the information resulting from their inexperience. By giving sound guidance and information, new breastfeeding...