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Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide: .
Written from a teaching perspective, Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant’s Guide, Seventh Edition presents practical suggestions and evidence-based information for the lactation consultant to provide the nursing mother. Thoughtfully updated, it includes new information on social media trends, blood sugar protocols, changes in Baby-Friendly NICU and the Ten Steps, donor milk in the healthy newborn nursery and effects on exclusivity, and more timely and relevant topics. Expanded discussions on dominant culture, implicit bias, cultural humility, and health equity, as well as additional case studies and a more global focus of human lactation, make this new edition an invaluable resource for all lactation consultants. Additionally, this unique book also serves as a significant teaching tool for students, interns, and other healthcare professionals. With an extensive glossary and bulleted lists at the end of each chapter, it is an ideal study guide for International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) certification and practice.
900 pages, Paperback
First published July 12, 2010
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November 16, 2017
This book is everything that is wrong with textbooks today. Read this sucker for a Lactation Educator Counselor course and IT WAS SO TOTALLY BORING. Also, the way the chapters were laid out made zero sense to me. That could honestly be because of the way the instructor taught the class, but I have to say that I liked the instructor better.
ALSO THIS BOOK IS WAAAAAYYYYY TOO BIG AND UNWIELDY. If you want to make a book that people will use over and over again, and appreciate, make something that doesn't cause their bookcase shelves to sag. This book weighs about 20 lbs and it's bigger than any other book (regular or textbook) that I own. TERRIBLE. TERRIBLE DESIGN.
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ALSO THIS BOOK IS WAAAAAYYYYY TOO BIG AND UNWIELDY. If you want to make a book that people will use over and over again, and appreciate, make something that doesn't cause their bookcase shelves to sag. This book weighs about 20 lbs and it's bigger than any other book (regular or textbook) that I own. TERRIBLE. TERRIBLE DESIGN.
That is all.
June 26, 2020
Oh god what do I say?
I'm a CLC looking to get my IBCLC and this book/worksheet provided 15 hours continuing education credits toward that goal. Oh my word I wish I had picked a different text.
The author seems to have not had an editor. The book is over 800 pages and most of it didn't even need to be there. They say in a paragraph what could be said in a short sentence, say the same thing REPETITIVELY-just rephrasing. The same information is stated...and overstated SO MANY TIMES. Superfluous wording and phrasing made this an absolutely tedious read about a topic I am actually interested in. Do not bother-find another book-Save yourselves!
I'm a CLC looking to get my IBCLC and this book/worksheet provided 15 hours continuing education credits toward that goal. Oh my word I wish I had picked a different text.
The author seems to have not had an editor. The book is over 800 pages and most of it didn't even need to be there. They say in a paragraph what could be said in a short sentence, say the same thing REPETITIVELY-just rephrasing. The same information is stated...and overstated SO MANY TIMES. Superfluous wording and phrasing made this an absolutely tedious read about a topic I am actually interested in. Do not bother-find another book-Save yourselves!
April 3, 2021
Studying for IBCLC and read it cover to cover. Didn't mind the repetition others complained of in some parts as it would be needed should someone be just looking up particular sections and not reading it to study for a test like I am. I loved the extra tidbits of real world knowledge sprinkled throughout. I'll be keeping this in my shelves for a long time to refer back to.
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