Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation

Professional Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation is a 5-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

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