WEBINAR: HEAL THE MOTHER/HEAL THE BABY

Heal the Mother, Heal the Baby: Nutrition, Gut Health, the Enteric Nervous System & Breastfeeding: A 2-part Webinar with Jennifer Tow, IBCLC

ON-LINE WEBINAR

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:00pm and Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 3:00pm

February 22, 2012, 12noon-3:30 EST, 9AM-12:30PST, 6-9:30PM, RST
February 23, 2012, 12noon-3:00 EST, 9AM-noonPST, 6-9:30PM, RST

Pricing: $100 Registration, Deadline February 20, 2012

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Program Schedule: DAY ONE: (EST):
12-12:30PM Introduction: Gut Health: The Foundation for Well-Being
12:30-1:45PM Gut Function & the Maternal/Infant Eco-system
1:45-2PM Break
2-3:30pm Indications for Gut Healing in the Breastfeeding Dyad

DAY TWO: (EST)
12noon-1:30PM Implications for Breastfeeding Success & Supportive Interventions
1:30-1:45PM Break
1:45-3:00pm Long-term Implications for Gut Healing and Case Presentations

This program has been approved for 6 LCERPs by the IBLCE

Objectives:
Address the implications that maternal and infant gut health may have for the breastfeeding dyad
Discuss how breastfeeding difficulties may be resolved through healing the maternal gut
Learn indications for evaluating the infant's gut function and protocols for restoring function
Consider the long-term implications of gut function for maternal and infant health
Explore the various theories and holistic healing modalities that address maternal and infant gut function

The internal terrain reflects itself in the external terrain in a myriad of ways that may well explain many breastfeeding problems. Gut health and integrity drives the nature of the enteric nervous system, thus the implications for well-being are significant. When the maternal body’s reaction to imbalance results in a pro-inflammatory response, a cascade of disease processes may result. Maternal health and well-being, post-partum depression, food allergies, milk supply, PCOS, tongue-tie, reflux, "high-need" infant behavior, slow growth, failure to thrive and numerous feeding difficulties may all find origins in the integrity and vitality of the mother’s internal terrain. In attending to the health of the maternal gut, while supporting the infant in his own healing, we may find that many breastfeeding problems are resolved both acutely and chronically. In a discussion of maternal gut health, the function of the enteric nervous system and the implications for infant gut integrity, we will come to a deeper understanding of why healing the mother's gut may well be integral to successfully addressing a wide array of breastfeeding difficulties.

Jennifer Tow, BFA, IBCLC practices Holistic Lactation. She has been in private practice for 15 years in Connecticut and most recently in Paris, prior to which she designed and coordinated a hospital-based breastfeeding peer counselor program in Hartford. Through her companies, Intuitive Parenting Network, LLC and Intuitive Health Network, Jennifer relies upon her 23 years of passionate information-gathering, education and training in holistic practices to provide holistic lactation consulting, parent education and mentoring to the families she works with. She also provides workshops for families, individuals and health care providers on topics related to birth, infant feeding, attachment and holistic practices.

Her areas of focus in infant feeding are healing infant trauma, the inter-dependent relationship between maternal gut health, hormones, milk supply and the well-being of the dyad, and the synergy of maternal-infant physiology, form and function, including tongue-tie. Having established a reputation for working with parents to resolve complex feeding problems, Jennifer now works with clients internationally, primarily through Skype. She integrates a myriad of holistic modalities, such as nutrition, herbs, home remedies and energy medicine in mentoring families who choose a deeper and more permanent approach to healing.

Jennifer is the mother of three children born at home in 1988, 1992 and 1998 and a granddaughter born at home in 2009.

http://holisticibclc.blogspot.com/2011/06/gut-microbes-and-poop.html

Registration information:
Please register through Paypal by making your payment to IParent4@aol.com and include your name, address, phone number and email address. If alternative payment arrangements need to be made, please contact Jennifer @IparentLLC@aol.com or 860-833-5343.

You will be emailed the link to join the webinar, so please indicate the email address you wish the link mailed to.