Facilitating Breastfeeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Identifying Barriers

Neonatal Network

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 206-212

  Myers, Donna ^b   Rubarth, Lori Baas ^a  

^a Creighton University School of Nursing   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84883231461     PISSN: 07300832     EISSN: 15392880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0730-0832.32.3.206     Document Type: Article

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