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| Introduction | |
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| Will You or Won't You? | |
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| 30-Day Guarantee | |
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| Why Breastfeed? Why Not? | |
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| Benefits for the Baby | |
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| Disadvantages of Formula-Feeding | |
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| American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Breastfeeding | |
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| Some of the Ways Breastfed Babies Differ from Formula-Fed Babies | |
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| From Sally Olds: A Mother's Enjoyment | |
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| Importance of Breastfeeding for the Mother | |
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| The WIC Program | |
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| When Breastfeeding May Not Be an Option | |
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| Reasons Women Give for Not Wanting to Breastfeed | |
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| A History Lesson: How Our Society Has Influenced Women | |
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| Today's Society and Breastfeeding | |
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| What Will You Do? | |
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| Questions You May Have About Breastfeeding | |
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| The Miracle of Lactation | |
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| The Development of Your Breasts | |
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| The Anatomy of Your Breasts | |
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| How Your Baby Gets Your Milk: The Let-Down Reflex | |
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| Signs of an Active Let-Down Reflex | |
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| Menstruation, Ovulation, and Pregnancy | |
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| Human Milk: The Ultimate Health Food | |
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| Before Your Baby Comes | |
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| Choosing Your Health Care Providers | |
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| Types of Health Care Provider | |
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| Questions to Ask Health Practitioners | |
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| Choosing Where You'll Give Birth | |
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| The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding in a Baby-Friendly Hospital | |
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| Packing Your Bag | |
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| Choosing When You'll Give Birth | |
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| Prenatal Classes | |
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| Preparing Your Breasts | |
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| Who Will Mother You? | |
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| To Grandmas: How Yon Can Help | |
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| Your Baby Is Here | |
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| The Ideal Beginning | |
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| Recommendations for Successful Breastfeeding from the American Academy of Pediatrics | |
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| Breastfeeding in a Hospital or Birthing Center | |
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| The First Nursing | |
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| A Gift That You Don't Want | |
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| Cesarean Birth | |
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| Mother-Baby Contact | |
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| Hospital Help | |
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| Hospital Hindrance | |
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| Speak Up in the Hospital | |
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| Newborn Health Measures | |
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| Breastfeeding Begins | |
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| Bringing Your Baby to the Breast: Positive Positioning | |
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| What Makes a Good Position for Breastfeeding? | |
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| How Your Baby Gets Your Milk | |
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| How to Tell When a Baby is Actively Suckling | |
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| Waking a Sleepy Baby | |
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| How Frequently Should You Nurse Your New Baby? | |
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| How Long Should Early Nursing Periods Last? | |
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| Burping Your Baby | |
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| Bowel Movements | |
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| Your Baby's First Posthospital Doctor's Visit | |
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| Your Baby's Weight After Birth | |
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| Is My Baby Getting Enough Milk? | |
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| Judging Intake by Output | |
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| Jaundice in Infants | |
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| When to Seek Immediate Help | |
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| Exclusive Pumping | |
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| Bottle-Feeding the Breastfed Baby | |
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| How to Bottle-Feed the Breastfed Baby | |
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| You Are a Nursing Family | |
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| Breastfeeding at Home | |
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| Tips on Relaxing Before and/or During Feedings | |
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| The Popular Pacifier | |
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| If You Have "Too Much" Milk | |
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| Breast Milk Bonus | |
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| Babywearing | |
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| When Your Baby Cries | |
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| The Colicky Baby | |
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| Ways to Comfort a Crying Baby | |
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| Sleeping Arrangements | |
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| Sleep and Lack of It: Night Feedings | |
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| Encouraging a Baby to Give Up Nighttime Nursing | |
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| Ways to Guard Your Rest | |
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| Diapers, Revisited | |
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| What Is Your Baby Like? | |
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| How to Discourage Biting | |
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| Cutting Down on Spitting Up | |
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| What Will You Call It? | |
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| Life as Part of a Nursing Family | |
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| Diet, Exercise, and Your Health | |
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| Diet: What You Eat, What You Drink | |
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| Guidelines for Healthy Eating | |
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| The Healthy Eating Pyramid | |
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| Avoiding Harmful Environmental Substances | |
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| Losing Weight: How Much, How Soon? | |
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| What the Labels Usually Mean | |
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| Exercise: How Much, How Soon? | |
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| An Exercise Guide for the Nursing Mother | |
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| How Do You Feel-and Why Do You Feel This Way? | |
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| Ways to Boost Your Postpartum Morale | |
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| Differences Between Postpartum Blues and Postpartum Depression | |
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| Confident, Comfortable Nursing at Home and Away | |
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| Care of Your Breasts | |
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| Finding the Right Nursing Bra | |
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| How You Look | |
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| Going Out with Your Baby | |
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| Nursing in Public | |
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| Flying with Your Nursing Baby | |
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| Drugs and the Nursing Mother | |
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| Resources and Information about Drugs and Breastfeeding | |
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| Drugs During Childbirth | |
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| Medicines | |
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| Medicines That Can Usually Be Taken Safely by Nursing Mothers | |
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| Medicines That Should Not Be Taken by Nursing Mothers | |
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| Medicines That Require a Temporary Cessation of Breastfeeding | |
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| Medicines of Concern | |
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| Birth Control | |
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| Herbs and Other Natural Remedies | |
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| Recreational and Hard Drugs | |
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| Minimizing the Effect of Nicotine on Your Nursing Baby | |
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| Pumping, Expressing, and Storing Breast Milk | |
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| What Kind of Pump Do You Need? | |
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| Choosing a Pump | |
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| Principles That Apply to All Methods of Collecting Milk | |
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| A Note of Caution about Bisphenol A (BPA) | |
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| How to Handle Expressed and Pumped Breast Milk | |
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| Storing Collected Breast Milk | |
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| Offering Expressed Milk to Your Baby | |
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| The Working Nursing Mother | |
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| Finding Support | |
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| Planning Ahead: While You're Pregnant and Still on the Job | |
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| Employer-Supported Lactation Programs | |
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| Planning Ahead: While You're on Your Maternity Leave | |
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| Tips for Feeding a Baby from a Cup | |
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| Your Baby's Feedings While You're at Work | |
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| Back at Work | |
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| Wardrobe Tips for the Working Breastfeeding Mother | |
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| Breastfeeding: A Sexual Passage | |
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| Sexy? Or Not So Sexy? | |
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| Resuming Sexual Activity | |
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| Pelvic Floor (Kegel) Exercises | |
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| You and Your Relationship | |
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| The Five Phases of Female Sexuality | |
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| Female Sexuality | |
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| The Sensuous Nature of Breastfeeding | |
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| Birth Control | |
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| Contraception for the Nursing Mother | |
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| Your Partner Is Still Your Lover | |
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| Especially for Dad or Partner | |
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| Breastfeeding's Benefits for You, the Father | |
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| Becoming a Father | |
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| The Father's Importance in the Family | |
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| Boot Camp for New Dads | |
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| Your Baby's Mother Is Still Your Lover | |
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| Rolling Up Your Sleeves | |
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| How a "Breastfeeding" Father Can Nurture a Baby | |
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| You Can Be a Complete Father | |
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| Getting Support for Yourself | |
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| Preventing and Treating Nursing-Related Problems | |
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| Disagreement with Your Doctor | |
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| Engorgement (Hard, Swollen Breasts) | |
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| Ways to Relieve Engorgement | |
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| Sore Nipples | |
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| Thrush | |
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| Clogged Duct (Plugged Duct, "Caked" Breasts) | |
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| Breast Infection (Mastitis) | |
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| Galactocele (Milk-Retention Cyst) | |
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| Sudden Increase in Baby's Demand | |
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| The Baby Who Gains Too Slowly | |
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| Helping the Older Baby Who Isn't Gaining | |
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| Nursing Supplementers | |
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| The Baby Who Gains Too Fast | |
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| Temporary Rejection of the Breast ("Nursing Strike") | |
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| When an Older Baby Refuses the Breast | |
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| Special Situations | |
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| Breastfeeding Your Preterm (Premature) Infant | |
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| Separation of Mother and Baby | |
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| If Your Baby Gets Sick | |
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| If You Get Sick | |
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| If You Have Had Breast Surgery | |
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| Piercing and Tattooing | |
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| Twins and More | |
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| Nursing Through a Pregnancy and Tandem Nursing Afterward | |
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| Milk Banks | |
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| Breastfeeding Another Woman's Baby | |
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| Relactation and Nursing an Adopted Baby | |
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| Succeeding at Induced Lactation or Relactation | |
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| Babies with Special Needs | |
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| Beyond Breastfeeding | |
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| Vitamins | |
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| Recommended Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation for Breastfed Babies | |
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| Weaning Your Child | |
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| Extended Breastfeeding | |
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| "When Are You Going to Stop Nursing?" | |
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| How Should You Wean? | |
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| Suggestions for Weaning the Older Child | |
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| How Weaning Affects You | |
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| Other Food and Drink | |
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| Offering Solid Foods | |
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| Staying Close with Your Child | |
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| Breastfeeding and the Law | |
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| Resource Appendix: Helpful Organizations and Sources of Information | |
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| Website Appendix | |
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| A Comparison of Cow's Milk And Human Milk | |
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| Index | |