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JONES & BARTLETT LEARNING Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants 3/e by Catherine Watson Genna
Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants, Second Edition is the essential resource for healthcare professionals working with new mothers and infants. Using a skills approach, it focuses on normal sucking function in addition to anatomical variations, developmental respiratory issues, prematurity, and mild neurological deficits.Completely updated and revised with new photos and images, this edition contains a new chapter, "Hands in Support of Breastfeeding: Manual Therapy."Written by an internationally renowned IBCLC and deliberately multidisciplinary, it provides the entire team with both the research background and clinical strategies necessary to help infants with successful sucking and feeding.