Health, Fitness & Dieting, Asia, Linguistics 

From the cover:

The merits of breast-feeding are now widely recognized. Doctors and mothers are now convinced that breast really is best, and breast-feeding campaigners are being carried out all over the world. But health workers are still left with the tasks of explaining to mothers how to breast-feed. Mothers no longer learn this automatically from their own mothers, yet at the same time nurses, doctors, midwives, obstetricians, and nutritionists are often themselves taught little on the subject. This is a manual written for health workers, nurses, auxiliaries, and non-specialist doctors in both developing and industrialized countries which will enable them to give confident and well-informed advice to mothers on all aspects of breast-feeding including: how breast-feeding works, preparations to make before the birth; the problems mothers may encounter and what to do about them; the effect of diet and drugs taken by the mother; which illnesses affect breast-feeding; mechanical aids; relactation; weaning; and the popular myths about breast-feeding both harmful and harmless.