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The film made for mothers-to-be discusses the value of even a short period of breast feeding, particularly with regards to the protection it can provide, the balanced nature of the ingredients of breast milk and its importance in ensuring healthy growth and development. There are some vox pops at the beginning with mothers explaining why they didn't breast feed. Nurses and mid-wives help new mothers to feed their babies. A link is made between over feeding and obesity in adults. Dr Valman is sympathetic to mothers who can't or decide not to breast feed; he does explain, however, the importance of bonding, how natural breast feeding is and plays down the perceived 'inconvenience'. There is a short intertitle with SMA (a supplier of formula milk) at the end.

3 film reels (20 min. ea) : sound, colour, 16 mm

Breast feeding.

115 pages : illustrations (color) ; 21 cm

All change : a guide to the first six months of parenthood / [Heather Welford].

A two-part film made for mothers-to-be, looking at the correct way to bathe a baby. This second part shows, among other things washing the body, drying, putting on a fresh nappy, dressing and making up the cot.

Bathing and dressing

1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (10.40 min.) : black and white, PAL. 1 DVD (10.40 min.) : black and white, PAL.

Bathing and dressing. Part 2.

A two-part film made for mothers-to-be, looking at the correct way to bathe a baby. This first part shows, among other things, the importance of avoiding draughts, which equipment is needed, how to change a soiled nappy, the correct temperature of bath water and how to wash the face and head.

1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (10.40 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL. 1 DVD (10.40 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL.

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Maternal Behavior

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Breast feeding.

All change : a guide to the first six months of parenthood / [Heather Welford].

Bathing and dressing. Part 2.

Bathing and dressing. Part 1.

Mothers alone : poverty and the fatherless family / Dennis Marsden.

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Maternal Behavior

Images

Works

Breast feeding.

All change : a guide to the first six months of parenthood / [Heather Welford].

Bathing and dressing. Part 2.

Bathing and dressing. Part 1.

Mothers alone : poverty and the fatherless family / Dennis Marsden.

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