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Off to a good start: all you need to know about breastfeeding your baby

Title:
Off to a good start: all you need to know about breastfeeding your baby.
Published:
HPA, April 2004.
Description:
This comprehensive resource presents the reasons why mothers and babies benefit from breastfeeding and explains how to breastfeed successfully. It covers issues including how breastfeeding works, positioning and attachment, how to know if breastfeeding is going well, expressing milk, breastfeeding and babies in special care, dealing with common problems, fitting breastfeeding into your life, and going back to work. It also provides details of other sources of information and advice.
Format:
20cm x 20cm, 60 pages, book.
ISBN:
1 874602 44 1
Target group:
Pregnant women and new mothers.
Available from:
This resource will be distributed to pregnant women at their ante-natal visits.
Additional information:
This book was adapted from a resource originally produced by Health Scotland (formerly the Health Education Board for Scotland). It will be distributed to pregnant women via their antenatal visits. Some information has changed since this publication, so please refer to the latest version (2008).
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