SECTION 1: The Historical and Work Perspective

CHAPTER 1: Tides in Breastfeeding Practice…Mary-Margaret Coates and Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 2: Work Strategies…Jan Riordan 

SECTION 2: Anatomical and Biological Imperatives

CHAPTER 3: Anatomy and physiology…Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 4: Biological specificity of breastmilk…Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 5: Drug therapy and breastfeeding…Thomas W. Hale

CHAPTER 6: Viruses in human milk…Jan Riordan

SECTION3: Prenatal, Perinatal and Postnatal Periods

CHAPTER 7: Perinatal and intrapartum care… Jan Riordan and Kay Hoover

CHAPTER 8: Postpartum care…Linda J. Smith and Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 9: Breast-related problems…Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 10: Low intake in the breastfed infant: Maternal and infant considerations…Nancy Powers

CHAPTER 11: Jaundice and the Breastfed Baby…Marguerite Herschel and Lawrence M. Gartner

CHAPTER 12: Breast Pumps and Other Technologies…Marsha Walker

CHAPTER 13: Breastfeeding the preterm infant…Nancy Hurst and Paula Meier

CHAPTER 14: Donor human milk banking…Lois Arnold 

SECTION 4: Beyond Postpartum

CHAPTER 15: Maternal nutrition during lactation...Yvonne Bronner and Kathleen G. Auerbach

CHAPTER 16: Women’s health and breastfeeding…Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 17: Maternal employment and breastfeeding…Karen Wambach

CHAPTER 18: Child health…Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 19: The ill child: Breastfeeding implications…Sallie Page-Goertz and Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 20: Infant assessment…Mary Koehn, Kathy Gill-Hopple, and Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 21: Fertility, sexuality, and contraception during lactation…Kathy I. Kennedy 

SECTION 5: Contemporary Issues

CHAPTER 22: Research, theory, and lactation…Roberta Hewat

CHAPTER 23: Breastfeeding education…Jan Riordan and Debi Leslie Bocar

CHAPTER 24: The cultural context of breastfeeding…Jan Riordan

CHAPTER 25: Families…Jan Riordan and Kathleen G. Auerbach