South-West

Presented by LLL Pacific Horizons Area and Children's Hospital of Orange County

9:30 Breastfeeding Friendly Jaundice Management
11:00 Overcoming Breastfeeding Challenges of Diabetic
Mothers
1:15 Initiating Supplementation in the Hospital
2:45 Assessing Feeding Adequacy in Newborns

Faculty:
Basia Tcheng, MD
Susan Wu, MD
Susan Aldana, IBCLC
Karen Peters MBA, RD, IBCLC

What is the CLC course?

This course is designed to prepare health-care providers to appropriately and adequately support breastfeeding women and their infants. The material is presented at a level to fill the gaps in professional education. DSHS believes that a positive, proactive approach to breastfeeding promotion and support can only be achieved through team effort. Thus, all levels of health-care workers directly affecting breastfeeding women and their infants are encouraged to attend.

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.

Speaking:
Nils Bergman, MPH, MD, PhD is a world renowned physician, has a Masters Degree in Public Health and a PhD in clinical Pharmacology. He developed and researched the concept of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature infants. This concept dramatically changed the paradigm for neonatal care and improved the survival of premature infants. He currently is Lecturer and Research Associate in the Department of Human Biology, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town in South Africa.

This course is designed for health professionals who counsel breastfeeding mothers and would like to improve problem-solving skills. The emphasis is in critical thinking and the helping process. It is an intermediate level course and is activity oriented. Course content is reviewed on a regular basis by the authors in accordance with the Standards of Practice set forth by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE).

Embracing Human Milk in the 21st Century - Practice Research and Results

Conference Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
• Provision of evidence in support of the use of donor human milk in the NICU.
• Explore the effects of storage and processing of human milk.
• Provision of information in support of breastfeeding and use of human milk.
• Increase knowledge about the operation of milk banks including the experience of milk donation.
• Increase understanding of milk banking in selected countries.

This in-depth and in-person professional education in breastfeeding and lactation course, provides 37.5 theoretical hours for the new IBLCE exam eligibility requirements beginning in 2012.

Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate as a Lactation Educator and each participant will be given the knowledge to work with other healthcare providers to to ensure continuity of care for breastfeeding mothers and infants

This research and competency based lactation management training provides

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Comprehensive breastfeeding management training
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Practical skills that will make you more effective in your job
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Time-saving hospital strategies that make breastfeeding a success
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Strategies and tips for special circumstances - premies, Down Syndrome,
newborns affected by medications, and more
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How to talk to mothers in a way that encourages them to choose breastfeeding
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This interactive course provides IBCLCs and CLCs with the opportunity to earn advanced certification in lactation management while verifying the insight, knowledge and skills essential to the development and implementation of management strategies for complex problems related to breastfeeding and human lactation. Participants will examine actual challenging cases, and develop management strategies using knowledge of psychology, sociology, infant development, gender studies, professional interrelations and ethics.