Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants, Second Edition

Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC

ISBN-13: 978-1-4496-4736-0 | Paperback | 432 pages | © 2013

Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants, Second Edition is the essential resource for health care professionals working with new mothers and infants. Using a skills approach, it focuses on normal sucking function in addition to anatomical variations, developmental respiratory issues, prematurity, or mild neurological deficits.

• Completely updated and revised
• New photos and images
• New chapter, “Hands in Support of Breastfeeding - Manual Therapy”

Written by an internationally-renowned IBCLC and deliberately multidisciplinary, it provides the entire team with both the research background and clinical strategies necessary to help infants with successful sucking and feeding.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Breastfeeding: Normal Sucking and Swallowing
Chapter 2: Breastfeeding and Perinatal Neuroscience
Chapter 3: Why Johnny Can’t Suck: Impact of Birth Practices on Infant Suck
Chapter 4: How Infants Learn to Feed: A Neurobehavioral Model
Chapter 5: They Can Do It, You Can Help: Building Breastfeeding Skill and Confidence in Mother and Helper
Chapter 6: The Goldilocks Problem: Milk Flow That Is Not Too Fast, Not Too Slow, but Just Right Or, Why Milk Flow Matters and What to Do About
Chapter 7: Breastfeeding preterm infants
Chapter 8: The Influence of Anatomic and Structural Issues on Sucking Skills
Chapter 9: Minimally Invasive Treatment for Posterior ­Tongue-­Tie (The Hidden ­Tongue-­Tie)
Chapter 10: Hands in Support of Breastfeeding - Manual Therapy
Chapter 11: Sensory Integration and Breastfeeding
Chapter 12: Neurological Issues and Breastfeeding
Chapter 13: Therapeutic Positioning for Breastfeeding
Chapter 14: Counseling Mothers of Infants with Feeding Difficulties

About the Author:
Catherine Watson Genna has been an IBCLC in private practice in NYC since 1992. She has a special interest in the anatomical, genetic and neurological influences on infant sucking skills, and writes and speaks on these topics. She is co-researcher in a study utilizing ultrasound to examine tongue movements during breastfeeding in infants with ankyloglossia and other sucking problems. Her clinical photographs have been published in both lay and scholarly venues.