Best Practice: Breastfeeding!
A Three-Day Intensive Workshop
Day Three
At the end of this session you are able to:
- Describe ways to enhance the success of breastfeeding for the mother of a premature infant.
- List the cultural messages that make parenting more complicated and difficult.
- Evaluate the current AAP recommendation about infant sleep.
- Discuss the potential impact of breastfeeding on family relationships.
- Discuss the advantages of continued breastfeeding.
- Describe what women want and need from the healthcare system.
Topics included:
Big Lessons, Tiny Babies: When breastfeeding is most vulnerable
- The preterm infant's vital need for human milk
- The importance of adequate milk production
- "Best Practices"
The Most Common Parent Concerns
- Helping parents deal with culture vs. biology
- Nesting vs. Carrying
- Clock watching
- Crying babies, colic, reflux
- Sleep
Relationships in the Breastfeeding Family
- Partners and postpartum women
Advantages of Continued Breastfeeding
- How long should I breastfeed?
- Biologic weaning from the breast
Searching for Excellence
- Results of changing hospital practice
- Getting on the same page
- Looking at our professional lives
- What women and babies need/want from us