Professional
Education in Breastfeeding and Lactation
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Course Description
Continuing Education Units
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Make a difference in the health of mothers and infants and add to your
professional credentials. This comprehensive 6-day course is taught by
expert, board-certified lactation consultants, and provides you with the
theoretical foundation for the
International Board of
Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) certification exam (you are
responsible for obtaining the necessary clinical experience on your own).
This course is designed for health care providers and lay people who want
to provide accurate, current and consistent information about breastfeeding
and lactation to expectant and new families. All areas of the IBLCE exam
grid are included, and content is based on current research as it applies to
best practice issues in the clinical setting.
Completion of this course will provide a Lactation Educator Certificate.
In addition to the basic lecture content, all
students will present and learn from written and oral case studies, complete
a written project of their choice, and take a multiple choice exam on the
final morning of the course. At the end of the course, you will have
completed the required 45 hours of didactic content for preparation of the
certification exam.
This
course is for you:
- midwives and midwifery students
- birth and postpartum doulas
- childbirth educators
- maternity or pediatric nurses
- obstetricians, pediatricians or family physicians
- WIC staff
- early parenting educators
- perinatal social workers
- Early Headstart staff
- La Leche League leaders who want updates and new scientific resources
- public health nurses or staff working with new families
- occupational or respiratory therapists working with breastfeeding newborns
- dieticians serving pregnant women, new mothers and their babies
- current lactation consultants needing CERPs or exam preparation for
re-certification
CEUs are approved from:
- CA Board of Registered Nursing (45 contact hours)
- International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (43 L and 2 E CERPs)
- Commission on Dietetic Registration (45 CPE hours)
TOP
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
How practices can influence endocrine responses in mother and baby
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
Breastfeeding expectations in the early weeks
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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See the
class schedule.
Where to
obtain texts.
There are many excellent
reference books available. If you wish to purchase books before the
course, we recommend starting with one of the following:
Breastfeeding and
Human Lactation (3rd ed, 2004) by Jan Riordan
The Breastfeeding
Answer Book
(3rd ed, 2003) by Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie
Stock
Breastfeeding: A
Guide for the Medical Profession by Ruth Lawrence (this book is very
"medical" in its writing and message)
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Molly
Pessl, BSN, IBCLC
Molly has spent most of her
career with a focus on family-centered maternity care. She worked at
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center from 1985-2003, following 5 years as a
health educator, clinician and lactation consultant for a hospital based
nurse-midwifery service. During her years at Evergreen Hospital, Molly
developed comprehensive parent and professional education programs, the
regional breastfeeding center, a postpartum follow-up clinic and Baby-Parent
Groups. These programs led to the first US designation of Baby
Friendly by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Molly is
currently the director of Evergreen Perinatal Education, a consulting and
education program for professionals. Molly served on the International
Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and is a past president of that
board. She is a registered nurse, childbirth educator and Internationally
Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
Ginna Wall, MN, RN, IBCLC
Ginna founded the lactation
program at the University of Washington Medical Center in 1986 and continues
there as coordinator for Lactation Services. This program serves a
predominantly indigent and high-risk clientele, and the challenge of caring
for the premature infant is a major focus of the programs lactation
consultants. Almost 20% of the infants born at the University of
Washington Medical Center require neonatal intensive care. Ginna
received her master's degree in nursing from the University of Washington
and has published several articles about breastfeeding in BIRTH, JOGNN and
the Journal of Human Lactation. Ginna has served on the editorial board of
the JHL and the exam committee of IBLCE. She has been on the faculty
of Evergreen Perinatal Education since its inception.
Marie McCarter Witherell RN, ICCE, IBCLC
Marie works with childbearing families in diverse settings - homebirth,
clinics and hospitals - as a nurse and lactation consultant. She is also an
internationally certified perinatal educator with special skill in working
with teen birth and parenting. Marie's community involvement includes work
with schools, universities, the media and advocacy organizations as a
speaker and author. She is a frequent lecturer for nursing, childbirth
education and midwifery students.
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