Educational Resource
The Science and Art of Breast-feeding by William F. Walsh (1983)
The Science and Art of Breast-feeding by William F. Walsh in International Review of Natural Family Planning, Volume VII, Number 4, Winter 1983
This paper will include the physiology of breast-feeding, breast-feeding and prolactin production, maternal nutrition in breastfeeding, and ideal things that could be done to help mothers breast-feed.
We will begin with the human breast, its development, the establishment of lactation, the maintenance of lactation, and the milk ejection reflex.
William F. Walsh, M.D., N.F.P.M.C., is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice and is currently the program director of the UCLA-Antelope Valley Family Practice Residency. He is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine of the UCLA School of Medicine, a medical associate of the Southern California LaLeche League, and a contributing professional member of the International Childbirth Education Association.
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