This handout is part of the manual "Breastfeeding Your Hospitalized Baby." It covers how to know when the baby is ready to breastfeed, positions such as the football hold and the cross-cradle hold, how to help the baby latch, nipple shields, and test weights.
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This handout gives tips on eating a healthy diet after giving birth. This will help support your health and your baby’s health, too.
This chapter of the Heart Transplant Manual provides guidelines for nutrition after heart transplant.
This booklet gives dietary tips for patients who have had a transplant. Included are: the nutritional effects of medicines; needs for protein, sodium, potassium and calcium; weight and exercise; low-bacteria diet; and food safety. Space is provided for a dietitian to fill in information specific to the patient.
This handout from Clinical Nutrition Services provides guidelines for food safety and healthy lifestyle choices after transplant surgery.
This handout gives diet tips for patients who have had whipple surgery at University of Washington Medical Center. It explains why a special diet is needed and gives lists of foods to eat and foods to avoid.
This handout for pregnant women is about eating safely to help herself and her growing baby stay healthy. It includes sections on weight gain, important nutrients, and foods to avoid. This document is a chapter in the birth book "Pregnancy and Giving Birth."
This handout answers questions about nutrition and prostate cancer, including what foods to eat and avoid and whether to take vitamins and other supplements.
This handout for kidney/pancreas transplant patients gives guidelines for healthy eating before and after transplantation. This document is also a chapter in "Your Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Guide," which is available from Materials Management #171915.
This handout is for patients who are having heart surgery at University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake. It explains how to eat now to help your body recover after your surgery.
This handout explains why it is important to eat a healthy diet during pregnancy. It includes answers to common questions pregnant women have, such as "How much weight gain is normal?" "How many calories do I need to eat every day?" "Do I need to take vitamins?" and "What foods are best to eat?" It also has sections on nutrients, food and safety concerns, meal ideas, and activity and exercise.
This handout gives guidelines for food choices for women who have diabetes during pregnancy. It explains what carbohydrates should be avoided and why, and gives helpful tips for keeping blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible. It includes suggestions for what foods to eat at meals and snacks.
This handout details some of the common eating-related responses to coronary artery bypass or valve surgery. It offers suggestions for dealing with loss of appetite, combating constipation, and eating right to help the body heal and fight infection.
This handout is for patients at UW Medical Center who have had jaw surgery. It explains changes you will need to make to your diet during recovery, and what to eat to help yourself heal.
This handout for liver transplant patients gives guidelines for healthy eating before and after transplantation. This document is also a chapter in "Your Liver Transplant Guide: At University of Washington Medical Center," which is available from Materials Management #UH1915.
This handout explains why people with liver disease need to eat more high-quality protein foods. It includes daily protein goals, lists foods that are high in protein, and provides sample menus.
This handout explains what obstructive sleep apnea, what causes it, how it affects your health, and how it may increase the risk of problems during and after having surgery. A list of symptoms and treatment options are included.
This handout explains what occupational therapy is and why it is important after heart surgery. It includes important precautions to follow and what to expect during therapy sessions.
This handout explains how to prepare for an octreotide study, a nuclear medicine procedure that is used to diagnose tumors. It includes an overview of the study, how it is done, and how to get the results.
This handout describes omalizumab, an injectable medicine for patients who have allergic asthma. This medicine is used in combination with other inhaled asthma medicines. Side effects and the possibility of anaphylaxis are discussed.
This handout, provided by Occupational Therapy at UW Medical Center, explains an Ommaya Reservoir. It also lists precautions and activity restrictions to follow after the device is placed.
This section of the Guide to Your Weight Loss Surgery lists websites that provide more information about weight loss surgery.
This handout describes how to prepare for open abdominal aortic repair and what to expect afterward. An aortic aneurysm is a bulge in the aorta, the main vessel (artery) that carries blood from your heart to the rest of your body. An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a bulge in the part of your aorta that is in your belly.
This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a patient may expect when scheduled for open abdominal aortic surgery at Harborview Medical Center. It covers how to get ready for the surgery, what to expect during the hospital stay, and what to do at home after discharge.
This handout provides information about open-ended dental care under general anesthesia, including risks, benefits, and alternatives.