Ohio

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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The Surgeon General’s Call to Action Number 7: Accelerating Implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in Ohio
March 16 & 17, 2012
Marriott NW ~ Dublin OHIO

$145 for OLCA members
$175 for renewal and conference
Speakers include:
Dr. Ted Wymyslo– Director, Ohio Department of Health

Dr. Helen Ball Director of the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab at
Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
Seminal research on Infant Sleep

Debra Bingham, RN, DrPH, LCCE
Co-chair research advisory panel, AWHONN
Responsible for getting implementing exclusivity as a core measure of JCAHO

Course Description:
Optimum breastfeeding outcomes depend on giving families the skills, confidence and information needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their babies. Join Cheryl Scott as she shares strategies to improve the health outcomes for mothers and babies by addressing the challenges facing the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This comprehensive day will include the latest information on:
Late pre-term infant and multiples
Hyperbilirubinemia
Hypoglycemia and the diabetic mother
Sleepy baby
Sore nipples
Low milk supply

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.

It will be held October 12, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Boardman, Ohio.

Moms, Babies, Milk and the Law: Legal and Ethical Issues in Bedside Breastfeeding support
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and is That Ethical? A Game Show for Lactation helpers
When Worlds Collide: How Ethics Differ for IBCLCs, Peer Counselors, Nurses and Volunteers
Looking at Latch: Offering Hands-free Help

This research and competency based lactation management training provides

*

Comprehensive breastfeeding management training
*

Practical skills that will make you more effective in your job
*

Time-saving hospital strategies that make breastfeeding a success
*

Strategies and tips for special circumstances - premies, Down Syndrome,
newborns affected by medications, and more
*

How to talk to mothers in a way that encourages them to choose breastfeeding
*