Table of Contents

Foreword by Martha Sears, RN
Introduction
Part 1: Investigating Your Milk Supply
Chapter 1: Understanding Your Milk Factory
Chapter 2: What's Normal and What's Not
Chapter 3: How to Know if There Really is a Problem
Part 2: Making the Most of What You Have
Chapter 4: Supplementing Without Decreasing Your Milk Supply
Chapter 5: Getting Your Milk Production Off to a Good Start
Part 3: Investigating Causes of Low Milk Production
Chapter 6: Is it Something You're Doing?
Chapter 7: Is it Something Your Baby is Doing?
Chapter 8: Is it Something About Your Breasts?
Chapter 9: Is it Your Hormones?
Chapter 10: Can Your Mind Affect Your Supply?
Part 4: Increasing Milk Production
Chapter 11: Physical Techniques to Make More Milk
Chapter 12: Galactogogues: Foods, Herbs, and Medications that Stimulate Milk Production
Chapter 13: Making More Milk When You Return to Work or School
Chapter 14: Making More Milk In Special Situations: Exclusive Pumping, Multiples, Premies, Relactation, and Induced Lactation
Part 5: Surviving the Present and Planning for the Future
Chapter 15: Coping with Low Milk Supply
Chapter 16: What About Next Time?
Appendix A: Galactogogue Tables
References
Index

About the Author

Diana West, IBCLC, is a board certified lactation consultant in private practice and author of Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery.

Lisa Marasco, M.A., IBCLC, is a board certified lactation consultant both in private practice and for WIC and contributing author to the Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice.