Biological Nurturing
Instinctual Breastfeeding
Suzanne Colson
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Biological Nurturing
Instinctual Breastfeeding
Suzanne Colson
Información del libro
Many say that breastfeeding is natural yet most health professionals teach mothers to practise responsive, baby-led feeding using a set of predetermined, latching instructions. This book describes a new, proactive, mother-led approach called biological nurturing. Biological nurturing research highlights that, under certain conditions, mothers have an inborn breastfeeding capacity aiding them to nourish and nurture their babies. However, tapping into this instinctual heritage is diametrically opposed to the thinking involved in a skills-teaching approach.
Biological nurturing is quick and easy to do. Maternal comfort is a priority and the laid-back breastfeeding postures optimise baby gazing and eye-to-eye contact. Spontaneity and reciprocity are the watchwords and once comfortable, most mothers and babies discover what works through the hit and miss of the experience.
The challenge for health professionals lies with promoting an oxytocin-friendly environment, understanding breastfeeding releasing mechanisms, and learning when not to intervene. This book restores confidence in nature's biological design and in mothers' innate capacity to breastfeed.
2nd revised and updated edition.
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Índice
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1: What is Biological Nurturing?
- 2: Why Do We Need a New Breastfeeding Approach?
- 3: The Roots of Biological Nurturing
- 4: The Biological Nurturing Continuum
- 5: Keep the Baby at the Right Address
- 6 Transitions: Coping with Discontinuity
- 7 Exploratory and Descriptive Research
- 8 Biological Nurturing: The Active Ingredients and Mechanisms
- 9 Primitive Neonatal Reflexes
- 10 Mother’s Breastfeeding Postures
- 11 Baby’s Breastfeeding Positions
- 12 Lessons from Other Mammals
- 13 Going with Gravity
- 14 Neonatal Behavioural State
- 15 Maternal Hormonal State
- 16 Instinctual Breastfeeding
- 17 Biological Nurturing: A Mother-Centred Approach
- Glossary
- References
- Appendix: Biological Nurturing Research
- About the Author
- Index