Stories
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Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
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Thalidomide, a bitter pill
Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.
Catalogue
- Books
Maternal-child nursing / Christine Spahn Smith.
Smith, Christine Spahn.Date: 1963- Books
Modules for learning in nursing : life cycle and maternity care / Lou Coffey ; consultant Dorothy Reilly.
Coffey, Lou.Date: 1975- Books
Modern gynaecology with obstetrics for nurses / by Winifred Hector and Gordon Bourne.
Hector, Winifred.Date: 1969- Books
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The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.
Warrington, Joseph, -1888.Date: 1839- Books
Modern gynaecology with obstetrics for nurses / by Winifred Hector and Gordon Bourne.
Hector, Winifred.Date: 1974