Heal the Mother, Heal the Baby: Nutrition, Gut Health, the Enteric Nervous System & Breastfeeding

Heal the Mother, Heal the Baby: Nutrition, Gut Health, the Enteric Nervous System & Breastfeeding

A one day workshop with Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, leading thinker on the critical role of maternal gut health in lactation success.

May 23, 2011

Simmons Way Village Inn
53 Main St.
Millerton, NY

Program Schedule:
9-9:30am Introduction: Gut Health: The Foundation for Well-Being
9:30-1:45am Gut Function & the Maternal/Infant Eco-system
10:45-11am Break
11-12:30pm Indications for Gut Healing in the Breastfeeding Dyad
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3pm Implications for Breastfeeding Success & Supportive Interventions
3-3:15pm Break
3:15-4:30pm Long-term Implications for Gut Healing and Case Presentations

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 currently resides in Paris, but was in private practice for 12 years in Connecticut, prior to which she designed and coordinated a hospital-based breastfeeding peer counselor program. Through her companies, Intuitive Parenting Network, LLC and Intuitive Health Network, Jennifer relies upon her 22 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.

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 Kristen Panzer at 860-360-0961.

Pricing: The first 15 attendees prior to April 8 will be registered for $100 (please check this page prior to registering as we will note when we have reached that number), includes breakfast and lunch. Through the month of April, registration is $125. After April 30th, registration is $140.

An application for CERPs has been submitted to IBLCE.

Accommodations can be found at the Simmons Way Village Inn (http://www.simmonsway.com/) or the Interlaken in Lakeville, CT. http://www.interlakeninn.com/

For questions, please contact Kristen Panzer at 860 630 0961 or katamach@hotmail.com

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