1-18-25 Avoiding Lactation Challenges in the First Weeks
LactaLearning's 2025 Annual Conference is here!
LactaLearning is proud to announce it's third annual conference! Please come and join us on Saturday, January 18, 2025!
Why should you join us?
- 3 amazing speakers Catherine Watson Genna, Lisa Marasco, and Barbara Robertson!
- Cutting edge topics that are perfect whether you work in a hospital, private practice, or public health.
- 7.5 L-CERPs in one place!
- Choice of attending live or watching the recordings
- Access for 4 full months
What past participants are saying about LactaLearning Conferences:
- This course was well organized, evidence-based and relevant to our work.
Thank you! - It was a pleasure participating in the BF conference. Great speakers to learn from and great information.
- It was great - very informative and although all day, it was so worth it.
Cost of Conference:
Early bird pricing until 12-31-24 $129
After 12-31-24 $155
Summary of L-CERPs by IBCLC DCO Section
1.25 L-CERPs: Section I: Development and Nutrition
1 L-CERPs: Section II: Physiology and Endocrinology
1.5 L-CERPs: Section III: Pathology
0.5 L-CERPs: Section IV: Pharmacology and Toxicology
0 L-CERPs: Section V: Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
2.25 L-CERPs: Section VI: Techniques
1 L-CERPs: Section VII: Clinical Skills
7.5 L-CERPs Total
Catherine Watson Genna
Lisa Marasco
Barbara D. Robertson
1-18-25 Agenda for the day:
8:30 AM ET- Conference Opens
8:45 AM ET- House Keeping
9:00-9:45 AM ET Session 1: Prenatal education, what your families really need to know- Barbara
9:45-10:30 AM ET Session 2: Worth their weight in gold- Skin to skin contact and laid back breast/chestfeeding- Barbara
10:30-10:45 AM ET Break
10:45-12:15 PM ET Session 3: Differentiating Normal Neonatal Weight Loss from Breastfeeding Failure Cathy
12:15-1:00 PM ET Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM ET Session 4: The lactation curve: Blasting off to a great start- Lisa
2:30-4:00 PM ET Session 5: Working toward latch- Cathy
4:00-4:15 PM ET Break
4:15-5:45 PM ET Session 6: What about next time: Avoiding challenges for future babies Lisa
7.5 L-CERPs have been approved.
Cost of Conference:
Early bird pricing until 12-31-24 $129
After 12-31-24 $155
Objectives for our sessions:
List five must have take home messages for families
Share information about appropriate feeding amounts, weight loss and gain
Provide at least 3 benefits of skin to skin contact to families
Demonstrate the laid-back breast/chestfeeding position
Compare physiological weight loss and weight loss from breastfeeding failure or mismanagement
List 5 factors that contribute to greater than physiological neonatal weight loss
Discuss feeding behaviors that are associated with a higher risk of hypernatremic dehydration and appropriate interventions to protect breastfeeding.
List at least 3 forces involved in launching a rocket launch, and their lactation parallel
Describe the concept of lactation persistency
Explain how galactogogues may affect the lactation curve
Describe the human infant’s expected stimuli for attaching to the breast.
Explain two ways to help parents continue working toward breastfeeding when progress is uneven.
List 4 possible interventions to assist infants who are unable to attach to the breast.
Describe the difference between a proactive and reactive strategy
List at least three categories of risk factors for future lactation problems
List at least 3 prior lactation experience risk factors
FAQ
Five Reasons to Attend Our Conference!
1
Help increase breast/chestfeeding rates by putting the right information into families hands at the right times.
2
Help reduce the fear of not having enough milk. The number one reasons families use formula and wean early.
3
Be able to flag when a family is struggling and offer support and information to get them back on track.
4
Set families up for success by working with infant natural instincts, not against them. Babies know what to do!
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Obtain 7.5 L-CERPs and 7.5 Nursing Contact Hours for a great price!