Controversies in Breastfeeding Support and Management

Featured Speakers: Denise Parker, BA, IBCLC Karen Peters, MBA, RD, IBCLC

White Memorial Medical Center
1720 Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90033

Overfeeding in infancy increases the risk for childhood obesity. Why dont parents following our feeding advice? Why do they supplement breastfeeding with formula? Why do they introduce cereal and other foods earlier than we recommend?

Many parents and healthcare providers believe that a quiet, sleeping baby is a good baby and react to the crying and wakeful baby by overfeeding.

This evidence based one day seminar will provide tools that can be used to support exclusive breastfeeding in community, clinic and hospital settings. Seminar participants will gain important insight into what babies are trying to communicate in their unique and often difficult-to-understand body language. When counseling breastfeeding mothers or teaching health care professionals, baby behavior messages can be woven into breastfeeding guidance. Understanding baby behavior will improve in-hospital and clinic breastfeeding rates, parent satisfaction and confidence.

Faculty
Denise Parker, BA, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant at Kaiser Permanente, Baldwin Park
Southern California Kaiser Permanente Regional Lactation Committee Chair
Birth and Beyond California Consultant

Karen Peters, MBA, RD, IBCLC
Executive Director, Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles
Birth and Beyond California Consultant