Health visitors play a crucial role in supporting mothers who
choose to breastfeed and their families. This accessible text
enables readers to practise confidently in this vital area,
focusing on underpinning knowledge and parent-centred counselling
skills, and understanding cultural contexts. Breastfeeding a child
improves the lifelong health of a population, and promoting
breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice.
Breastfeeding for Public Health incorporates the voices of health
visitors, mothers and fathers to give insight into common practical
challenges faced and suggestions for overcoming or working around
them. Presenting up-to-date research, it explores the practical
skills needed by health visitors to support mothers with
breastfeeding; how to develop the communication skills and
self-awareness necessary to build successful and trusting
relationships with women and their families; why breastfeeding is
so important for babies' and mothers' health and psychological
attachment, closeness and long-term mental health; what we know
about the content of breastmilk and the positive effect it has on
the baby's gut microbiome, which in turn benefits the infant's
long-term health and helps to protect against non-communicable
diseases; the role of the father and grandparents in successfully
initiating and sustaining breastfeeding; and how cultural awareness
and sensitivity can influence practice for the better. Written by
an experienced volunteer and practitioner with decades of
experience as a health visitor and breastfeeding counsellor, this
text is ideal for students taking Specialist Community and Public
Health Nursing courses. It is also an important reference for
practising health visitors.
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