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This research and competency based lactation management training provides

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Comprehensive breastfeeding management training
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Practical skills that will make you more effective in your job
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Time-saving hospital strategies that make breastfeeding a success
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Strategies and tips for special circumstances - premies, Down Syndrome,
newborns affected by medications, and more
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How to talk to mothers in a way that encourages them to choose breastfeeding
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Course Description
Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care: The 5 Day Course, is a complete, in-person, core program to begin practice in evidence-based breastfeeding and lactation care. Participants will be able to provide accurate, current and consistent information about breastfeeding and lactation and be able to support new families in feeding their babies from birth through the process of weaning. Each participant will be given the knowledge to work with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care for breastfeeding mothers and infants.
Who Should Attend

This research and competency based lactation management training provides

*

Comprehensive breastfeeding management training
*

Practical skills that will make you more effective in your job
*

Time-saving hospital strategies that make breastfeeding a success
*

Strategies and tips for special circumstances - premies, Down Syndrome,
newborns affected by medications, and more
*

How to talk to mothers in a way that encourages them to choose breastfeeding
*

If you want to know more about • sleep • sex • solids • drugs • bonding • BFHI • SIDS • co-sleeping • communication • allergies • Gestational diabetes • breast and nipple pain, then you should attend.

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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

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

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

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
Discuss Joint Commission Core Measure Program for Perinatal Care. ␣ Explore the advantages of a Baby-Friendly Hospital designation to include
strategies for pursuing the process.
Summarize the challenges and barriers that may arise at the hospital level during the Baby-Friendly Hospital
application process.
Explain when to supplement a breastfed infant.
Discuss interventions that reduce the proportion of breastfed newborns who receive unnecessary formula
supplementation within the first two days of life.

This course is designed to train those who will teach the 20 hour course required by the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative for training health professionals, educators and staff. This offering provides a weeklong learning laboratory to assist participants in mastering the materials, methods, and scientific evidence that form the basis of the 20 hour course (as developed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, and adapted by Baby-Friendly USA). The course is organized around the concepts, strategies, and applications involved in adult learning.