Best Practice: Managing Early Breastfeeding Challenges
Presented by Molly Pessl, BSN, IBCLC
Attend this one-day seminar if you are:
• 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.
Objectives:
1. List two ways to communicate effectively with women about feeding their babies.
2. List two birthing routines that may influence breastfeeding success.
3. Discuss the rationale of skin to skin care for mother and baby.
4. Describe the effects of early nursing care on milk production.
5. Describe the basic elements of correct positioning and latch.
6. Describe ways to make work time more efficient when helping breastfeeding families.
7. Identify the specific risks for babies born at 35-39 weeks gestation.
Cost:
OHSU employees: $20, refundable deposit (Bring your OHSU ID badge for a refund)
Non-OHSU employees: $50, non-refundable
The cost of attending a Molly Pessl conference usually runs several hundred dollars but thanks to the knitting skill and generosity of the “Nurse Knits”, this conference is free to OHSU nurses and will provide 7.5 CEUs.
Because this conference is being offered to OHSU employees at no charge, and there may be a tendency to sign up and not attend, we ask that OHSU nurses pay a $20 registration fee which is fully refundable on the day of the conference if you attend. If you do not attend then the $20 will be turned back over to the Nurse Knits group so that they can begin saving for the next gift.
To register:
Register for the class on Aug. 10.
Register for the class on Aug. 11.
Registration to the general public opens Monday, July 12th.
