Understanding Breastfeeding DVD

Emphasize a woman’s natural ability to breastfeed

Understanding Breastfeeding DVD Your Guide to a Healthy Start 3rd edition helps you teach important breastfeeding concepts. It also instills confidence by emphasizing a woman’s natural ability to breastfeed. Following the latest ILCA and AAP recommendations, this evidence-based teaching tool helps increase initiation and duration rates while helping families get the best possible start with breastfeeding.

Featuring:

• Advantages of laid-back breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact
• New animations based on the latest research comparing deep and shallow latches, and the process of healthy milk production
• Emphasis on how parents can improve their chances for breastfeeding success
• Candid comments from new parents sharing their own breastfeeding experiences

Understanding Breastfeeding DVD Content Includes:

• How Breastfeeding Works – 3D breast anatomy and milk production animation, breastmilk qualities, why breastfeeding is important to mothers and babies, AAP exclusivity recommendations
• Getting the Best Start – sharing breastfeeding plans with the hospital staff, skin-to-skin contact, rooming-in, lactation consultants, pacifier recommendations
• Latching On – latching on in a reclined and upright position, 3D animation of effective and ineffective latches
• Breastfeeding Positions – laid-back, cross-cradle, football, side-lying and cradle hold
• When to Feed Your Baby – hunger and satiation cues, feeding patterns and guidelines, how to feed a sleepy baby
• Getting Enough Milk – signs of milk transfer, growth spurts, feeding and diaper log, stool and urine guidelines, weight gain, getting help
• Breast Care – normal breast fullness, hand expression and pumping, engorgement, nipple tenderness, mastitis and other warning signs
• Breastfeeding Lifestyle – partner support and involvement, feeding in public, self-care,
  substances to avoid, support groups, returning to work

DVD bonuses include:

• Video clip demonstrating how to express breastmilk by hand
• New 3D animation clips showing latch and milk production
• Breastfeeding positions image library

35 minutes, ©2013
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