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Promoting nutrition in breastfeeding women.

Wilson PR, Pugh LC

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, 525 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. pdroque@aol.com

Nurses have a vital role in providing nutritional education to breastfeeding women. In this article, the authors discuss the nutritional requirements for breast-feeding women in terms of micronutrients, macronutrients, and minerals. They provide recommendations for women with vegetarian diets and low-income women enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children program who may have dietary deficiencies, and they present a directed case study to provide an example of how to perform a dietary assessment and the educational support that may be offered by nurses to breastfeeding women.

Published 27 January 2005 in J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, 34(1): 120-4.
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