You are the registered nurse performing a health assessment on a newborn infant. From the functional health pattern portion of the assessment, you learn the mother is reluctant to breastfeed her baby. How do you respond? Explain the approach you will take to ensure adequate nutrition for the newborn, with or without breastfeeding. Provide rationale for your answer.

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Child morbidity and mortality can be reduced by ensuring that infants are breastfed properly. While many mothers are knowledgeable about the importance of breastfeeding, some are still ignorant and do not consider its importance and for that matter the babies seem …

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