Significantly revised and updated, the new second edition provides physicians and other health professionals in all specialties with a concise reference on breastfeeding and human lactation.

The new Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians is an essential one-stop guide to the latest and best in breastfeeding management, support, education, and advocacy. Jointly developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), with additional critical review by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), it features contributions from distinguished experts.

Health professionals across your practice will use this convenient resource again and again as a quick-access clinical problem-solver and an efficient teaching and learning aid.

The second edition is replete with practice-focused advice based on frontline clinical experience and current research.

Topics include:

Anatomy and lactation physiology
Breastfeeding benefits
Management and support how-to's
Breastfeeding techniques
Lactation-support technology
Risk factors and contraindications
Feeding patterns
Relactation
Complementary feeding
Medication issues
Contraception issues
Nursing refusal
Insufficient milk syndrome
Weaning
Counselling recommendations
Breastfeeding resources
And more!

New to the second edition are:

All-new chapters: The unique benefits of breastmilk for preterm infants; breastfeeding issues during disasters.
Expanded how-to's for a breastfeeding-friendly office environment.
The latest AAP and ACOG policies.
Revised preventive healthcare checklists.
Coverage of recent national initiatives: 2011 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding; Updated Healthy People 2020 targets for breastfeeding; provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that promote and support breastfeeding.