Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation is a 6-day course
Topics include:
- Effective breastfeeding promotion
- Prenatal breast assessment
- Cultural influences on infant feeding choices
- Importance of breastfeeding for the teenager
- Getting breastfeeding started with evidence-based care
- Why midwifery care makes sense for good breastfeeding outcomes
- The effects of hospital routines on early breastfeeding
- Predictable newborn behaviors
- Importance of positioning and latch in early breastfeeding
- Assessment of newborn latch and suck
- Supplements for breastfed babies – when are they needed?
- Influence of commercial baby food industries
- Understanding the letters: IBCLC, IBLCE, ILCA
- Maternal nutrition
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Breastfeeding challenges and problems – engorgement, sore nipples
- How we communicate with breastfeeding families
- Communication skills – case studies
- Liability and ethics about infant feeding
- Maternal medications and breastfeeding
- On-going breastfeeding problems – yeast, mastitis, abscess, plugged ducts
- Breastfeeding multiples
- Breastfeeding the premature infant
- Relationships in the breastfeeding family
- Culture and the conflict with human biology
- Care of the slow to gain, poorly gaining infant
- Relactation and nursing an adopted baby
- The grief of a failed breastfeeding experience
- Skills labs
- The meaning of family-centered care
- Setting up a lactation service
- Postpartum depression and breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and the working mother
- The real meaning of “Baby Friendly”
- Breastfeeding the older child
- When breastfeeding ends
