Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Investigating Your Milk Supply; Chapter 1 Understanding Your Milk Factory; Seasons of Breast Development: Growing a Milk Factory; Hormones and the Milk-Making Process; Milk Ejection: Nature's Delivery System; How Your Body Decides How Much Milk to Make; Baby Calls the Shots; The Resource-Efficient Breast; The Role of Storage Capacity; Does Milk Production Have an Upper Limit?; The Milk Supply Equation; Milk Production Is Designed to Succeed; Chapter 2 What's Normal and What's Not; Commonly Misinterpreted Baby Behaviors.
Chapter 6 Is It Something You're Doing?Finding Causes of Low Milk Production; Latch Problems; When Milk Seems to Dry Up Overnight; Stealthy Saboteurs: Common Substances That Inhibit Milk Production; Pregnancy; Outside Interferences; Feeding Frequency and Duration; Your Need for Sleep; Unnecessary Supplementation; Nutrition; Hydration; Chapter 7 Is It Something Your Baby Is Doing?; Suck Problems; Palatal Variations; Facial Abnormalities; Airway Problems; Cardiac Problems; Nervous System Issues; The Large, Small, or Early Baby; Infections; Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.
Chapter 8 Is It Something About Your Breasts?Anatomical Variations; Breast Structure; Surgeries; Infections; Injuries; Chapter 9 Is It Your Hormones?; Hormonal Issues: The Big Spider Web; Edema; Obesity; Diabetes; Hypertension; Anemia; Postpartum Hemorrhage and Sheehan's Syndrome; Placental Problems; Thyroid Dysfunction; Infertility; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS); Luteal Phase Defect; Gestational Ovarian Theca Lutein Cysts; Menstruation; The Age Factor; What Do I Do Now?; Chapter 10 Can Your Mind Affect Your Supply?; Mind over Milk or Milk over Mind?; Potential Inhibitors of Milk Ejection.
Commonly Misinterpreted Maternal IndicatorsDo You Have Enough Milk?; Chapter 3 How to Know If There Really Is a Problem; Determining If Your Baby Is Getting Enough Milk; Weight Gain to Gauge Milk Intake; Diaper Output to Gauge Milk Intake; Feeding Test Weights; Measuring Production by Pumping; The Final Results; Developing a Milk Management Strategy; Part II: Making the Most of What You Have; Chapter 4 Supplementing Without Decreasing Your Milk Supply; When to Begin Supplementation; How Much to Supplement: A Starting Point; Choosing a Supplement; Supplementation Devices.
Weaning from SupplementsSolids as Supplements; Chapter 5 Getting Your Milk Supply Off to a Good Start; Get a Head Start: Expressing Milk Before Baby Is Born; Nurse in the First Hour; Keep Baby Skin to Skin as Much as Possible; Delay Bathing; Optimal Milk Production Depends on an Optimal Latch; Optimizing Milk Removal: Breast Massage and Compression; Proximity and Frequency; Avoid the Visitor Syndrome; Express Milk After Breastfeeding; Don't Skip Nighttime Feedings; Putting It All Together: The Essential Elements; Part III: Investigating Causes of Low Milk Production.
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Offers advice to nursing mothers on how to improve low milk supply, examining the causes of the problem, looking at how bodies make milk, and discussing ways to determine if a baby is getting enough milk, how to supplement, and how to keep up the milk supply when away from the baby.