New Mexico Breastfeeding 18th Annual Conference Advanced Concepts in Breastfeeding "Exclusive Breastfeeding: Achieving the Goal"

The New Mexico Breastfeeding Task Force Presents

At the conclusion of this conference, the participant will be able to:

• Identify policies/procedures that impact breastfeeding initiation and duration rates.
• List the contraindications to breastfeeding.
• Identify maternal and infant risk factors that can impact breastfeeding.
• Implement five supportive hospital maternity practices that significantly extend breastfeeding duration
among mothers of healthy, term infants, regardless of socioeconomic status.
• Educate and prepare expectant mothers for an optimum hospital
breastfeeding experience.
• State two reasons why peer to peer support coupled with professional advice improves breastfeeding
outcomes.
• State three requirements to be licensed by The Baby Café, UK.
• Explain the distinction between sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and accidental suffocation and
strangulation in bed (ASSB), and describe recent infant mortality trends attributable to each cause.
• Cite ten evidence-based recommendations to reduce SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths, and
objectively counsel breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding mothers about providing safer infant sleep
environments.
• Separate breastfeeding facts from myths.·
• Describe the evidence behind breastfeeding facts.
• Implement specific stress-reduction strategies to increase personal satisfaction, enhance productivity, align
priorities and values, and practice self-care.
• Effectively counsel and support nursing clients in re-structuring their priorities to accommodate successful
breastfeeding.

Faculty____________________________________________________________________________

Lizabeth Berkley, MPH, IBCLC, RLC, graduated from Columbia University with a Masters Degree in Public Health in 1985. Lizabeth has worked for the department of Pediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as a faculty associate at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center—El Paso for over twenty years. She is currently on the faculty of the Texas Tech University Gail Greve Hunt School of Nursing. She was instrumental in founding the second Baby Café in the United States, and is currently it’s director.

Marianne Neifert, MD, MTS, FAAP, widely known as Dr. Mom®, is a well known pediatrician and nationally recognized expert in lactation management. Dr. Neifert is a clinical professor of pediatrics at University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Breastfeeding Medical Advisor for Nourish Family Center, and owner of Dr. Mom® Presentations LLC. A long-time leader in the field of breastfeeding medicine, Dr. Neifert
is a founding member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine; co-founder of the Denver Mothers' Milk Bank and the Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition; and a member of the Health Advisory Council of La Leche League, International. Dr. Neifert has published numerous articles in the medical literature on the topic of breastfeeding and lactation management and is the author of Dr. Mom’s Guide to Breastfeeding (1998)
and The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding (2009) and other parenting books.

Amy Spangler, MN, RN, IBCLC, has served as president of the International Lactation Consultant Association and chair of the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Emory University School of Nursing and the author of numerous publications including BREASTFEEDING, A Parent’s Guide; BREASTFEEDING, Keep It Simple; BREASTFEEDING, Your guide to a healthy, happy baby, and Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding. Amy currently serves as president of baby gooroo. She lectures extensively on a wide variety of maternal and child health topics. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband Dennis. They have two sons, Matthew and Adam

Diane Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, RAAN, is the Helen M. Shearer Term Chair in Nutrition and Associate Professor of Childbearing Families at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing sharing a joint appointment as a nurse researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Spatz is the 2007 recipient of the Research Utilization Award from Sigma Theta Tau International and the Dean’s Award for Exemplary Professional Practice (2009) for her work surrounding the use of human milk and breastfeeding in vulnerable infants. She developed the Breastfeeding Resource Nurse program. Dr. Spatz is also chair of the American Academy of Nursing’s Expert Panel on Breastfeeding and their representative to the United States Breastfeeding Committee

•Sec A $235 Thursday and Friday (Thursday lunch Included)
•Sec B $150 Thursday (includes lunch)
•Sec C $130 Friday (Lunch on your own)
•Vegetarian lunch option