Helping Mothers Breastfeed: Exclusive Breastfeeding: Tips from the Trenches

Speaker: Ginna Wall MN,RN,IBCLC

Tuition: $135.00 before March 1 / $150.00 after March 1 (FMH Employees and Nursing Students : $75.00) $125 for 2 or more registrations mailed or called in together before March 1st.

Topics include: Maternal reasons for not exlusively breastfeeding;Infant reasons for not exclusively breastfeeding; going baby freindly:talking with mothers;health care advice that leads to not exclusively breastfeeding; going baby friendly:talking with co-workers.

The goal of this conference is to provide updated information on a variety of clinical breastfeeding issues to enhance evidence-based practice. This conference will be relevant to professionals who work with breastfeeding mothers and/or babies.
At the completion of the program, participants will be able to:
Course Objectives:
• Review current research on outcomes of exclusive breastfeeding compared to breastfeeding partially or not at all.
• Review the results from the research on exclusive breastfeeding, looking at maternal factors that influence achievement of exclusive breastfeeding.
• Examine risk factors for delayed onset of lactation that affects mothers’ ability to breastfeed exclusively.
• Identify infant factors that lead to early termination of exclusive breastfeeding.
You may also go online for more information at www.frd-holidome.holiday-inn.com.
• Discuss how lactation consultants could adjust prenatal and postnatal care/education to better meet the needs and concerns of breastfeeding mothers.
• Identify practices that support and those that interfere with breastfeeding.
• Work with co-workers to highlight barriers to breastfeeding and seek ways to overcome those barriers.
Need more information? Please call 240-566-3880 and leave a detailed message for Karen Dacey or Ruth DeRosa.

Refunds are given upon receipt of written notice up to 7 days prior to the program. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee. You may find a substitute within 7 days prior to the program. FMH reserves the right to cancel the program. In that case, all registrations will be refunded.

The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center located at the Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick, Maryland. Please call 301-694-7500 for hotel reservations. Be sure to mention the Frederick Memorial Hospital conference to get the special room rate.

See brochure for more information.