Publisher's Synopsis
This book is aimed at medical, nursing and community health workers in the tropics. The updated and enlarged second edition contains more on growth factors, physiology, mother-infant interaction, global trends, and studies on the importance of mother's milk. It collects together the results of recent research in lactation, comparing human milk with artificial feeds. The first edition sought to arrest the move away from breast-feeding in developing countries and to establish it as the natural infant feed. The world-wide effort to achieve this has started to make gains. This book provides material to help health workers consolidate these gains.
