- Expressing, storing, and feeding breast milk
- How to cope with breastfeeding obstacles and challenges
- Managing pumping and nursing when you return to work
- New-mom care for the postpartum period
- Introducing solid foods
- How to choose a breast pump
- Deciding when to wean-and how to do it
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Kathleen Huggins is a registered nurse and board-certified lactation consultant who is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in establishing the lactation consultant discipline as a core component of maternal-child health care in US hospitals. She established this reputation by creating and running a model breastfeeding clinic at San Luis Obispo General Hospital in California; by lecturing widely to professional peers and hospital administrators; and through her book The Nursing Mother's Companion. She has also co-authored The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning and Nursing Mother, Working Mother. She lives in San Luis Obispo, where she currently runs a new mothers' store, Simply MaMa. She continues to lecture widely in the health care and lactation-consultant arenas.