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Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide
Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide, Fifth Edition thoroughly covers how counseling styles and approaches can enhance interactions with mothers and stresses the importance of appropriate, effective communication techniques. The text presents topics within a counseling framework and includes practical suggestions for working with mothers. The reader will gain insight into applying knowledge and research into everyday practice, and how to meet counseling challenges.
The Fifth Edition has been thoroughly revised and covers a variety of topics in the lactation consultation field, beginning with breastfeeding promotion in the modern world, and examining the professional role of the lactation consultant, as well as basic anatomy, physiology, nutritional needs, high-risk babies, and breastfeeding techniques
The Fifth Edition has been thoroughly revised and covers a variety of topics in the lactation consultation field, beginning with breastfeeding promotion in the modern world, and examining the professional role of the lactation consultant, as well as basic anatomy, physiology, nutritional needs, high-risk babies, and breastfeeding techniques
799 pages, Hardcover
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.
That is all.
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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