Best Practice: Managing Early Breastfeeding Challenges
This program is for you if you are a:
- Maternity or pediatric nurse or healthcare staff working with new families
- Obstetrician, midwife, pediatrician or family medicine physician who is involved with early infant feeding and parenting issues
- Obstetric and pediatric clinic staff
- Childbirth educator
- Labor and postpartum doula
- Occupational or respiratory therapist working with breastfeeding newborns
- Registered Dietician working with pregnant women, new mothers and their babies
Course Description
This one-day workshop provides an intensive approach to the basics of breastfeeding promotion and early feeding issues – in the hospital, clinic and community. It is a helpful and effective beginning for education in research-based infant feeding, as well as an excellent update for IBCLCs and others who are interested in applying science to the practice of infant feeding.
Course Objectives, Agenda, & Content
Agenda of the day 8:00-5:00
Objectives:
- List two ways to communicate effectively with women about feeding their babies.
- List two birthing routines that may influence breastfeeding success.
- Discuss the rationale of skin to skin care for mother and baby.
- Describe the effects of early nursing care on milk production.
- Describe the basic elements of correct positioning and latch.
- Describe ways to make work time more efficient when helping breastfeeding families.
- Identify the specific risks for babies born at 35-39 weeks gestation.
Topics Included in this Program:
Commitment to Breastfeeding
- Why does it matter? - Species specificity
- Making breastfeeding an expectation
- Communicating without a turnoff
- Honest education, expectations
Getting Breasfeeding Started
- Evaluating Birth Practices
- Labor Routines
- Medications
- Newborn Recovery
Care That Makes Sense for Good Breastfeeding Outcomes
- Setting the stage
- Postpartum practices and infant outcomes
- Skin to skin care and breastfeeding responses
- Making feeding a priority while ensuring infant and maternal safety
- How our care influences milk supply
- What about cesarean birth?
- Have we examined practices?
- Tradition versus "best practice"
Positioning Babies at the Breast
- Basis for successful breastfeeding
- Common sense approach to helping mothers with first feedings
- LATCH score practice
Motivated to Make it Matter
- Keep it short and simple
- Looking at what's important
- Learning to feed
- Milk production
- Maternal confidence
Caring for the Near Term/Supposedly Term Baby
- Lowering the risks through excellent nursing care
- Ensuring adequate milk supply – for the mother, for the baby
- Application of same principles when feeding preterm infant
- Alternative feeding methods?
- Use of nipple shield?
Does All of This Make a Difference?
- Implementation of "best practice"
- What women want and need from us
Education Credits for One Day Course
In 2007, IBLCE and nursing credentialing organizations calculate CERPs or continuing education credits on a 60 minute hour, rather than the previous 50 minute hour. The following CERPs reflect that change.
- IBLCE 7.5 CERPs
- CDR – 7 CPE hours, Category II
- Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing – 7.5 Contact Hours