Holistic Practices in Lactation: A Workshop for Lactation Consultants, Midwives and Doulas with Jennifer Tow, IBCLC

Holistic Practices in Lactation: A Workshop for Lactation Consultants, Midwives and Doulas with Jennifer Tow, IBCLC

Zenana Spa
2024 SE Clinton, Portland, Oregon 97202
www.zenana-spa.com

Friday, April 2, 2010
9:00am - 5:00pm
and
Saturday, April 3, 2010
1:30-7:30pm

Cost: $250 Both Days
Day 1 only—Friday: $150 Lunch Included
As Day 2 relies upon the information learned in Day 1, it cannot be attended separately.

More and more mothers are interested in using non-pharmaceutical approaches for treating the most common physical and emotional concerns of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. Practitioners who recognize the normalcy of birth and breastfeeding are well-equipped to support mothers in accessing and utilizing holistic approaches to care. Practitioners can easily gain basic knowledge and skills in homeopathy, energy medicine such as Bach Flowers and EFT, herbs, home remedies and nutrition specific to the needs of pregnant and nursing mothers. In using these therapies, mothers are offered an alternative to more interventive care, while the practitioner also models a holistic approach that the mother can integrate into her own care and the raising of her family.

These holistic approaches are simple and practical and can often be integrated immediately. Some are both preventive and therapeutic such as the use of nutrition in pregnancy, while others are deeply supportive such as the use of Bach Flowers or EFT. Most have acutely therapeutic applications such as the use of home remedies, herbs or homeopathy for treating mastitis or plugged ducts, normalizing milk supply or healing birth trauma.

Jennifer Tow, BFA, IBCLC practices Holistic Lactation 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 20 years of passionate information-gathering, learning and training 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 in both parenting and professional practice.

Her areas of focus in infant feeding are healing infant trauma through the restoration of normal function, 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. It is her experience that integrating holistic therapies into her practice has provided a far broader support system for women who are planning to conceive (especially those experiencing difficulties), are pregnant, birthing or breastfeeding. Knowledge of holistic modalities has also helped her to establish a support system for her clients among other holistic practitioners in her community, further expanding opportunities mothers have for successful birth and breastfeeding experiences. She actively advocates for integrative care, encouraging other lactation consultants to establish partnerships with holistic providers in their own communities.

Jennifer's passion for working with women and babies was catalyzed by her own homebirths and her experience raising her children (born in 1988, 1992, 1998). Inspired by the healing of her own body through holistic therapies, she has raised her children from the premise that all life seeks its own well-being and acts in its own best interests. Primary is a trust that through the practice of raising vibrational energy, we allow the body’s intelligence to direct its own healing and restore homeostasis. She is committed to the protection and promotion of physiologic birth and breastfeeding, conscious parenting and holistic choices in healthcare and education. Jennifer is a certified energy healer (the Reconnection and Reconnective Healing), and has extensive education and experience in a range of holistic practices including homeopathy, herbalism, Bach Flowers, EFT, pranic healing, nutrition, intuition and home remedies and is certified in Past Life Regression. Jennifer is co-creator of the Sumati Home Remedy Kit. She is currently writing a book on the use of holistic practices for lactation consultants.

To register, please make your payment through Paypal to IParent4@aol.com

Application is being made for continuing education credits

For information, please email Jennifer Tow or call:
860-833-5343.

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