Columbus

Course Description:
Optimum breastfeeding outcomes depend on giving families the skills, confidence and information needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies. Join Cheryl Scott as she shares strategies to improve the health outcomes for mothers and babies by addressing the challenges facing the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This comprehensive day will include the latest information on:
Late pre-term infant and multiples
Hyperbilirubinemia
Hypoglycemia and the diabetic mother
Sleepy baby
Sore nipples
Low milk supply

This interactive course provides IBCLCs and CLCs with the opportunity to earn advanced certification in lactation management while verifying the insight, knowledge and skills essential to the development and implementation of management strategies for complex problems related to breastfeeding and human lactation. Participants will examine actual challenging cases, and develop management strategies using knowledge of psychology, sociology, infant development, gender studies, professional interrelations and ethics.