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Breastfeeding for Public Health : a resource for community healthcare professionals / Alison Spiro.

By: Spiro, Alison [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, c2022Description: 1 online resource (x, 180 pages ) : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 9781000535754 [electronic book]; 9780367689575 [hard bound]; 9780367689568 [paperback]Subject(s): Breastfeeding | Infants -- NutritionGenre/Form: Electronic book.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Breastfeeding for public healthDDC classification: Online resources: EBSCO http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3019234

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why is breastfeeding in the UK still difficult? -- Chapter 2 Why does breastfeeding matter to babies, mothers and society? -- Chapter 3 Why is formula feeding considered ‘normal’ in the UK? -- Chapter 4 Communication skills, emotional support and motivational interviewing -- Chapter 5 The practical skills which should help community practitioners to support parents with breastfeeding -- Chapter 6 Some breastfeeding challenges -- Chapter 7 Does breastfeeding improve parental and infant mental health? -- Chapter 8 Health visitors just weigh babies! -- Chapter 9 Special situations, when breastfeeding might be more difficult -- Chapter 10 Can anthropology give us insights into the way society views breastfeeding? -- Chapter 11 Cultural influences on breastfeeding in the UK -- Chapter 12 Community practitioners can normalise breastfeeding -- Chapter 13 Breastfeeding support organisations.

Summary: "Health visitors play a crucial role in supporting mothers who choose to breastfeed and their families. This accessible text enables readers to practise confidently in this vital area, focusing on underpinning knowledge and parent-centred counselling skills, and understanding cultural contexts. Breastfeeding a child improves the lifelong health of a population, and promoting breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice. Breastfeeding for Public Health incorporates the voices of health visitors, mothers and fathers to give insight into common practical challenges faced and suggestions for overcoming or working around them. Presenting up-to-date research, it explores the practical skills needed by health visitors to support mothers with breastfeeding; how to develop the communication skills and self-awareness necessary to build successful and trusting relationships with women and their families; why breastfeeding is so important for babies'and mothers'health and psychological attachment, closeness and long-term mental health; what we know about the content of breastmilk and the positive effect it has on the baby's gut microbiome, which in turn benefits the infant's long-term health and helps to protect against non-communicable diseases; the role of the father and grandparents in successfully initiating and sustaining breastfeeding; and how cultural awareness and sensitivity can influence practice for the better. Written by an experienced volunteer and practitioner with decades of experience as a health visitor and breastfeeding counsellor, this text is ideal for students taking Specialist Community and Public Health Nursing courses. It is also an important reference for practising health visitors." --Provided by Publisher

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Includes index.

"Health visitors play a crucial role in supporting mothers who choose to breastfeed and their families. This accessible text enables readers to practise confidently in this vital area, focusing on underpinning knowledge and parent-centred counselling skills, and understanding cultural contexts. Breastfeeding a child improves the lifelong health of a population, and promoting breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice. Breastfeeding for Public Health incorporates the voices of health visitors, mothers and fathers to give insight into common practical challenges faced and suggestions for overcoming or working around them. Presenting up-to-date research, it explores the practical skills needed by health visitors to support mothers with breastfeeding; how to develop the communication skills and self-awareness necessary to build successful and trusting relationships with women and their families; why breastfeeding is so important for babies'and mothers'health and psychological attachment, closeness and long-term mental health; what we know about the content of breastmilk and the positive effect it has on the baby's gut microbiome, which in turn benefits the infant's long-term health and helps to protect against non-communicable diseases; the role of the father and grandparents in successfully initiating and sustaining breastfeeding; and how cultural awareness and sensitivity can influence practice for the better. Written by an experienced volunteer and practitioner with decades of experience as a health visitor and breastfeeding counsellor, this text is ideal for students taking Specialist Community and Public Health Nursing courses. It is also an important reference for practising health visitors." --Provided by Publisher

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