Breastfeeding Works! Even with Allergies’
is a proclamation that breastfeeding most certainly works even when there are difficulties superimposed by allergies in either mother or baby.
Confusion ?
If ever there was a more confusing problem for mothers and clinicians alike, it is recognizing the role allergies play within a breastfeeding context.
Along with the confusion is a tremendous amount of frustration and downright desperation for many of those unfortunate enough to be affected. Despite their common, everyday frequency now, allergies are almost an undiscovered country in modern life.
The book identifies
the various ways that allergies can present in mothers and babies, shows many different ways to achieve better breastfeeds and how to adapt maternal diets to best manage infant food allergies. A wide range of individual aspects are covered in case histories and many photographs help to illustrate the subject matter.
Breastfeeding Works!
Even with Allergies’ provides a means to navigate through the minefield of how allergies may affect breastfeeding and breastfed babies.
Help !
Allergic mothers and babies can present to their doctors, lactation consultants, midwives and other practitioners in so many different ways:
painful breastfeeds
painful breastfeeds
unsettled babies
vomiting babies
babies who struggle to attach and feed
babies who ‘wrestle’ with their mothers throughout breastfeeds
breast refusal
babies with sleep problems
babies who seem to gain weight poorly despite plenty of intake
skin rashes
infant colic
“Breastfeeding is worth persisting with because outcomes are so much more rewarding in both health and emotional terms”
First book of its kind,
marking a new beginning for those struggling with previously unidentified breastfeeding issues. It is welcomed by both suffering families and the clinicians who work with them.
Issues addressed in the book include:
What is an allergy?
How serious can allergies be?
The difference between an intolerance and an allergy
Recognising allergies in breastfeeding mothers and their babies
How to quickly resolve allergy-related breastfeeding issues
Dealing with food allergies
Why continuing to breastfeed beats weaning onto formulas
Are there medical tests for food allergie
What causes allergies?
Do allergic children grow out of their allergies?
Introducing solid foods to allergic babies
Observing the dietary ground rules
Coping with friends, family and the rest of world
Long term outcomes
