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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Investigating Your Milk Supply | |
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| Understanding Your Milk Factory | |
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| Seasons of Breast Development: Growing a Milk Factory | |
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| Hormones and the Milk-Making Process | |
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| Milk Ejection: Nature's Delivery System | |
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| How Your Body Decides How Much Milk to Make | |
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| Baby Calls the Shots | |
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| The Resource-Efficient Breast | |
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| The Role of Storage Capacity | |
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| Does Milk Production Have an Upper Limit? | |
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| The Milk Supply Equation | |
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| Milk Production Is Designed to Succeed | |
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| What's Normal and What's Not | |
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| Commonly Misinterpreted Baby Behaviors | |
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| Commonly Misinterpreted Maternal Indicators | |
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| Do You Have Enough Milk? | |
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| How to Know If There Really Is a Problem | |
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| Determining If Your Baby Is Getting Enough Milk | |
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| Weight Gain to Gauge Milk Intake | |
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| Diaper Output to Gauge Milk Intake | |
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| Feeding Test Weights | |
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| Measuring Production by Pumping | |
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| The Final Results | |
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| Developing a Milk Management Strategy | |
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| Making the Most of What You Have | |
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| Supplementing Without Decreasing Your Milk Supply | |
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| When to Begin Supplementation | |
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| How Much to Supplement: A Starting Point | |
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| Choosing a Supplement | |
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| Supplementation Devices | |
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| Weaning from Supplements | |
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| Solids as Supplements | |
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| Getting Your Milk Supply Off to a Good Start | |
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| Get a Head Start: Expressing Milk Before Baby Is Born | |
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| Nurse in the First Hour | |
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| Keep Baby Skin to Skin as Much as Possible | |
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| Delay Bathing | |
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| Optimal Milk Production Depends on an Optimal Latch | |
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| Optimizing Milk Removal: Breast Massage and Compression | |
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| Proximity and Frequency | |
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| Avoid the Visitor Syndrome | |
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| Express Milk After Breastfeeding | |
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| Don't Skip Nighttime Feedings | |
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| Putting It All Together: The Essential Elements | |
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| Investigating Causes of Low Milk Production | |
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| Is It Something You're Doing? | |
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| Finding Causes of Low Milk Production | |
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| Latch Problems | |
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| When Milk Seems to Dry Up Overnight | |
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| Stealthy Saboteurs: Common Substances That Inhibit Milk Production | |
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| Pregnancy | |
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| Outside Interferences | |
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| Feeding Frequency and Duration | |
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| Your Need for Sleep | |
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| Unnecessary Supplementation | |
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| Nutrition | |
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| Hydration | |
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| Is It Something Your Baby Is Doing? | |
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| Suck Problems | |
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| Palatal Variations | |
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| Facial Abnormalities | |
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| Airway Problems | |
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| Cardiac Problems | |
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| Nervous System Issues | |
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| The Large, Small, or Early Baby | |
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| Infections | |
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| Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease | |
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| Is It Something About Your Breasts? | |
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| Anatomical Variations | |
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| Breast Structure | |
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| Surgeries | |
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| Infections | |
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| Injuries | |
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| Is It Your Hormones? | |
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| Hormonal Issues: The Big Spider Web | |
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| Edema | |
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| Obesity | |
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| Diabetes | |
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| Hypertension | |
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| Anemia | |
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| Postpartum Hemorrhage and Sheehan's Syndrome | |
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| Placental Problems | |
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| Thyroid Dysfunction | |
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| Infertility | |
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| Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) | |
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| Luteal Phase Defect | |
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| Gestational Ovarian Theca Lutein Cysts | |
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| Menstruation | |
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| The Age Factor | |
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| What Do I Do Now? | |
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| Can Your Mind Affect Your Supply? | |
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| Mind over Milk or Milk over Mind? | |
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| Potential Inhibitors of Milk Ejection | |
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| Harnessing Your Mind to Make More Milk | |
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| Increasing Milk Production | |
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| Physical Techniques to Make More Milk | |
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| Breastfeed More Frequently | |
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| Breast Massage and Compressions | |
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| Warmth | |
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| Touch | |
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| Pumping | |
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| Alternative Therapies | |
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| Galactogogues: Foods, Herbs, and Medications That Stimulate Milk Production | |
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| Targeting: Choosing the Best Galactogogue for Your Needs | |
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| Pharmaceutical Galactogogues | |
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| Lactogenic Foods: Setting the Stage for a Good Milk Supply | |
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| Navigating the World of Herbal Galactogogues | |
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| Milk Ejection Aids | |
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| Homeopathic Galactogogues | |
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| When Do I Stop Taking a Galactogogue? | |
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| Making More Milk When You Return to Work or School | |
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| Maximizing Your Milk Production | |
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| Make Your Plan | |
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| How Milk Production Can Decrease | |
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| Increasing Your Supply While Working | |
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| Solids Take the Pressure Off | |
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| Making More Milk in Special Situations: Exclusive Pumping, Premies, Multiples, Relactation, and Induced Lactation | |
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| Exclusive Pumping | |
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| Premature Babies | |
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| Multiples | |
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| Relactation | |
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| Induced Lactation | |
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| Surviving the Present and Planning for the Future | |
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| Coping with Low Milk Supply | |
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| Making Peace with Your Milk Supply | |
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| Coping Techniques | |
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| What About Next Time? | |
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| A Proactive Approach | |
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| Hope Is on the Horizon | |
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| Thank You for Sharing Your Journey with Us | |
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| Galactogogue Tables | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |