Breastfeeding during military deployment: A soldier's story

Nursing for Women's Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-25

  Sleutel, Martha Rider ^a  

^a ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Deployment; Military; Policy

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOLDIER; SON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865095831     PISSN: 17514851     EISSN: 1751486X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-486X.2012.01696.x     Document Type: Article

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