Defining your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book was written to enable mothers who have had breast reduction surgery to breastfeed their babies. It is generally thought that breastfeeding after breast reduction surgery is not possible. However, recent advances in breast reduction surgical techniques are now resulting in greater preservation of lactation capabilities. In addition to this, thousands of determined women who had been told that it wasn't possible have learned how to breastfeed after breast reduction surgery by combining common breastfeeding knowledge with trial-and-error experience to develop new knowledge specific to this unique situation. Now, for the first time, these techniques, tools, and insights are discussed in this book, offering thousands more the opportunity to realize that they can successfully breastfeed their babies after breast reduction surgery.

Although written directly to the mother who wishes to breastfeed after breast reduction surgery, this book is also a valuable resource for health care professionals -- surgeons, physicians, midwives, pediatric and maternity nurses, La Leche League Leaders, and lactation consultants -- who work with such mothers, as well as friends and family members. Many general breastfeeding books mention breastfeeding after reduction surgery, but until this book, no comprehensive resource has been available to mothers and their health care givers to explain the specific issues and breastfeeding management techniques that are required to successfully breastfeed after breast reduction surgery. It is the purpose of this book to demonstrate that even a mother with a compromised milk supply can develop a satisfying breastfeeding relationship, providing lifelong emotional and physiological benefits for herself and her baby.

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