These chapter numbers are provided for the textbooks we recommend, however each textbook covers the material in different ways. If you cannot find specific or comprehensive answers to the Study Guide questions in your textbook, please refer to the 'Recommended readings' (and do please let us know if the links need updating!).
Required pre-reading :
Breastfeeding & Human Lactation, 6th edn, 2021, Wambach, K, & Spencer, B.
Chapter 4 The Composition and Specificity of Human Milk
Chapter 7 Perinatal and Intrapartum Care
Chapter 8 Newborn Assessment
Chapter 9 Postpartum care
Chapter 22 Breastfeeding Education
Chapter 24 The Familial and Social Context of Breastfeeding
OR
Breastfeeding & Human Lactation, 7th edn, 2026, Wambach, K, & Spencer, B.
Chapter 4 The Composition and Specificity of Human Milk
Chapter 7 Perinatal and Intrapartum Care
Chapter 8 Newborn Assessment
Chapter 9 Postpartum care
Chapter 23 Lactation Education for Professionals and Parents
Chapter 25 The Familial/Social Context of Breastfeeding
OR
Core Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Lactation Care, 2nd edn, 2022, Campbell, S.H., Lauwers,
J., Mannel, R., & Spencer, B.
Chapter 1 Scientific Evidence Supporting Lactation
Chapter 4 Normal Infant Behaviour
Chapter 8 Nutrition During Lactation
Chapter 10 Transition to Parenthood
Chapter 12 Pregnancy, Labor and Birth Complications
Chapter 13 Facilitating Initiation of Lactation
Chapter 16 Growth From Birth Through Weaning
Chapter 22 Low Milk Production and Infant Weight
Chapter 26 Counselling and Communication
Chapter 27 Problem Solving and Documentation
Chapter 30 Lactation Education for Health Professionals
OR
Counseling the Nursing Mother, 7th edn, 2021, Lauwers, J. & Swisher, A.
Chapter 9 Health Factors in Lactation
Chapter 12 Prenatal Considerations
Chapter 13 Hospital Practices that Support Breastfeeding
Chapter 14 Infant Assessment and Development
Chapter 15 Getting Breastfeeding Started
Chapter 17 Breastfeeding in the Early Weeks
OR
Counseling Nursing Families, 8th edn, 2021, Lauwers, J. & LEAARC
Chapter 9 Health Factors in Lactation
Chapter 12 Prenatal Considerations
Chapter 13 Hospital Practices that Support Lactation
Chapter 14 Infant Assessment and Development
Chapter 15 Getting Nursing Started
Chapter 17 Nursing in the Early Weeks Postpartum
Recommended reading:
Del Ciampo, L. A., & Del Ciampo, I. R. L. (2018). Breastfeeding and the benefits of lactation for women's health. Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia/RBGO Gynecology and Obstetrics, 40(06), 354-359. https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0038-1657766.pdf
Deave, T., Johnson, D. & Ingram, J. (2008) Transition to parenthood: the needs of parents in
pregnancy and early parenthood. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 8, 30.
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-8-30
Evans, A., Marinelli, K. A., Taylor, J. S., & Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. (2014). ABM clinical protocol# 2: Guidelines for hospital discharge of the breastfeeding term newborn and mother:“The going home protocol,” revised 2014. Breastfeeding Medicine, 9(1), 3-8.
Global Health Media (2015), Early Initiation of Breastfeeding
https://globalhealthmedia.org/videos/early-initiation-of-breastfeeding/
Global Health Media, Helping a Breastfeeding Mother,
https://globalhealthmedia.org/videos/helping-a-breastfeeding-mother/
Martin, E., Vickers, B., Landau, R., Reece-Stremtan, S. and the Academy of Breastfeeding
Medicine (2018). ABM Clinical Protocol #28, Peripartum Analgesia and Anesthesia for the
Breastfeeding Mother https://www.bfmed.org/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/28-peripartum-analgesia-and-anesthesia-for-the-breastfeeding-mother-protocol-english.pdf
O’Sullivan, T. A., & Ihlein, C. N. (2024). A brief history of antenatal colostrum expression, and where to from here. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 1-8.
Rosen-Carole, C., Hartman, S., & Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (2015). ABM Clinical
Protocol #19: Breastfeeding Promotion in the Prenatal Setting, Revision 2015.
https://abm.memberclicks.net/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/19-prenatal%20promotion-protocol-english.pdf
