Tag: Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium


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English | ISBN: 1032208759 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume’s contributors investigate the close interrelationship between a woman and her lactating breasts, as well as the social, ideological, theological, and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth, and breastfeeding, along with their visual and literary representations.

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Breastfeeding and Metabolic Programming


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031332776 | 1232 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This comprehensive and updated book focuses on breastfeeding and its long-term effects which affect health and development, providing a protective metabolic programming against chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and hypertension.

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Negotiated Breastfeeding Holistic Postpartum Care and Embodied Parenting


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English | ISBN: 0367643529 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB | 384 KB
Based on an ethnography of postpartum consultations by independent midwives in Switzerland, this book produces unique insights into home-birth parents’ breastfeeding journey from the first hours after birth to weaning. Considered the "natural" continuity of childbirth without intervention, breastfeeding is a fundamental component of the holistic, continuous and individualised care independent midwives provide as they engage with parents in a shared construction of meaning around breastfeeding.

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