Breastfeeding: New Strategies for Improved Outcomes

Course Description:
If you support breastfeeding, you then recognize the need to improve breastfeeding outcomes. Join Carolyn Zara as she shares strategies to address the current challenges facing the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This comprehensive day will include the latest information on:

* Keys to Initiating Breastfeeding
* Managing Low Milk Supply
* Bottle-feeding the Breastfed Baby
* Latch-on Techniques that Work
* Colic and Gastroesophageal Reflux

Drawing on her extensive 35 years of clinical breastfeeding practice, Carolyn is eager to share her knowledge and expertise to assist you in developing strategies that can lead to better breastfeeding outcomes. Carolyn will enhance your knowledge of breastfeeding management with her intelligent, thoughtful, and engaging style. Past attendees have raved about the use of models, visual tools, and hands-on demonstrations incorporated into this dynamic presentation. Make plans today to attend this practical, timely and incredibly informative educational event.
Learner Objectives:
At the completion of this program, you will be able to:

1. Outline ways that healthcare providers can promote, protect and support breastfeeding.
2. Summarize how supporting Instinctive Mothering impacts maternal development, breastfeeding success and maternal satisfaction.
3. Utilize appropriate techniques for thorough observation and assessment of the breastfeeding dyad.
4. Explain evidence-based interventions and techniques for preventing and solving breastfeeding challenges for mothers and babies.
5. Recognize the infant's role in breastfeeding management.
6. Use the professional approach important for empowering the breastfeeding mother.
7. Describe vital techniques the health care provider can utilize in empowering the breastfeeding mother and baby to succeed at breastfeeding.
8. Discuss evidence-based critical strategies that increase breastfeeding duration.