The International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) and InJoy teamed up to create this up-to-date staff-training tool. Features expert lactation consultants modeling the essential, basic breastfeeding support practices that lead to increased initiation and duration rates.
Content Includes:
- Communicating About Breastfeeding – evidence-based statements and positive body language, working with an interpreter, addressing cultural sensitivity issues
- Breastfeeding Initiation – creating a supportive environment for breastfeeding as soon as the baby’s born, importance of skin-to-skin contact and early, frequent feedings, teaching parents about infant feeding behaviors, conducting the first postpartum visit after birth, indications for early pumping
- Teaching Latch and Technique – lactation physiology, how to help mothers achieve an asymmetrical latch, optimal feeding frequency and duration, identifying milk-transfer signs
- Anticipatory Guidance and Follow-Ups – discharge teaching and providing resources, long-term planning, reasons for recommending clinical follow-up care
This product is suitable for Baby-Friendly hospitals.
1.5 Contact Hours available from ILCA. Fees apply. CE forms available in free Facilitator’s Guide.
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and has not been endorsed by or affiliated with UNICEF or Baby-Friendly USA, Inc.
