Breastfeeding 9th Edition

A Guide for the Medical Profession

Ruth Lawrence, Robert Lawrence
Elsevier
1,088 pages
ISBN: 978-0323680134
June 2021

Written by award-winning author and co-founder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, this text ensures that you’re brought fully up to date on everything from basic data on the anatomical, physiological, biochemical, nutritional, immunological, and psychological aspects of human lactation, to the problems of clinical management of breastfeeding―all in a highly readable, easily accessible desk reference. This new edition features chapters on breast conditions and their management in the breastfeeding mother, breastfeeding and chest-feeding for LGBTQ+ families, medications and herbal preparations in breast milk, transmission of infectious disease through breast milk, allergy and its relationship with breastfeeding, and much more.