What can maternity facilities do to encourage women to breastfeed their infants?


Women who receive early and repeated breastfeeding information and support breastfeed their infants longer than other women do. Information and instruction are especially important during the prenatal period when most women decide whether to breastfeed or to feed formula. Nurses and other health care professionals can play a crucial role in encouraging successful breastfeeding by offering women adequate, accurate information about breastfeeding that permits them to make informed choices.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Chemical digestion __________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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__________means that an individual spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about food

A) Food preoccupation B) Food neophobia C) Food dysmorphia D) Food atrophy

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The volume of blood ejected by the heart each minute is known as the

a. VO2 max. b. one-half VO2 max. c. cardiac output. d. cardiac conditioned index. e. cardiac volume.

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