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Mother-Infant Cosleeping, Elective C-Sections and Parenting Books: Your Breastfeeding Questions Answered

 Friday, March 28, 2008
9:00 am to 4:00pm
Van Dyke Theater
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
2801 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, California

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This one day seminar will discuss the scientific studies (both strong and weak) that have been done regarding bedsharing, the background on SIDS investigations in relation to bedsharing and will look at the scientific studies of mother-infant bedsharing and how this benefits the mother-infant dyad. Re-defining biological bases of human infant sleep will be addressed and how and why it conflicts with cultural models. There will be an explanation of what biological studies, rather than cultural ideologies, show us about who the infant is and what the infant needs in regard to nighttime care and contact. There will be a discussion regarding cesarean birth on maternal request (CDMR) and how this could negatively impact the WHO’s Baby Friendly Initiative. Parenting books are a popular source of information for new parents. The popular guides found today and their “information” will be addressed and we will identify the content that is contrary to policies and recommendations by AAP and WHO.

OBJECTIVES

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Distinguish between strong and weak scientific studies regarding bedsharing;
  • Describe scientific studies of mother-infant bedsharing and how bedsharing benefits the mother infant dyad;
  • Distinguish between studies which begin and end with opinion and social values rather than with actual biological data on infant physiology and behavior;
  • Name three characteristics of the individuals who request CDMR; and to
  • List three key messages to be used when counseling parents at risk for implementing the infant care and feeding information in some parenting books.

Faculty:

James McKenna, PhD Director of the Mother-Baby Sleep Lab at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and is on the medical advisory board of La Leche League International. He is the author of Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parents Guide to Co-sleeping.

Patricia Donohue-Carey, BS, LCCE,CLE, FACCE Senior Health Educator for Perinatal health at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fremont, a Baby Friendly Hospital. She coordinates a spectrum of prenatal classes as well as participation in ongoing physician and staff education.

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Foundations of Infant Feeding: Application to Breastfeeding Practice - Exploring the Suck/Swallow/Breathe Triad

 Friday, April 25, 2008
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Torrance Memorial Medical Center
3330 Lomita Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90505

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on the function of the oral structures, the characteristics of sucking, and the phases of swallowing. Participants will be exposed to successful interventions for oral motor dysfunction in the breastfeeding infant. The special issues that premature infants have with suck/swallow/breathe will be addressed. This seminar will also provide clinical strategies to support and maintain breastfeeding in infants with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

OBJECTIVES

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:
• Understand the pathophysiologic principles underlying the suck-swallow-breathe triad and how they apply to breastfeeding;
• Identify several oral motor difficulties that interfere with effective latch and milk transfer and treatment strategies for these problems;
• Formulate a strategy to develop breastfeeding skills in the premature infant; and to
• Understand the mechanisms underlying gastroesophageal reflux and its relationship to breastfeeding difficulties.

FACULTY

• Robin Glass, MS, OTR, IBCLC
• Lynn Wolf, MOT, OTR, IBCLC

Ms. Glass and Ms. Wolf practice occupational therapy at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.

Their clinical specialty is the treatment of infants, with a strong focus on feeding issues. They are NDT trained and Board Certified Lactation Consultants, with extensive national and international experience speaking about infant feeding. They have published numerous journal articles as well as the book Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infancy: Assessment and Management.

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Cutting Edge” Information on Tongue Tie, Breastfeeding, and More

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Valley Care Olive View - UCLA
Medical Center
14445 Olive View Drive
Sylmar, CA 91342

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This one day seminar will discuss how an assessment for problematic frenulums, also known as tongue tie, is made in newborns/ neonates and how frenotomy can help initiate breastfeeding and improves the continuation of breastfeeding. There will be case studies presented to aid those in attendance to be able to assist in assessing for ankyloglossia, with the goal of initiation of exclusive breastfeeding. We will also present the ongoing research into vitamin D in the maternal/child health population and implications for breastfeeding infants. The most current evidence will be offered on the effectiveness of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in the US and world wide. Attendees will get practical tips on implementation of the BFHI in the hospital. The session on craniosacral therapy will provide an overview of the philosophy and treatments that can be useful when mothers and babies are learning to breastfeed.

OBJECTIVES

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the different types of problematic frenulums, commonly known as tongue-tie;
  • Understand and be able to communicate what a frenotomy is;
  • Describe the risk factors for vitamin D deficiency in mothers and newborns;
  • Describe effective strategies for implementing Baby Friendly Initiative in the hospital setting; and to
  • Identify the support a craniosacral therapist can provide to the breastfeeding mother and baby.

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Assisting Mothers to Successful Baby Led Latching 

Thursday, November 1, 2007
9:30 am to 4:30pm

Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Harvey Morse Auditorium, South Tower
8700 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca 90048

FACULTY
Christina M. Smillie, MD, FAAP, IBCLC, FABM, Medical Director, Breastfeeding Resources, Stratford, Connecticut.
Kittie Frantz, RN, CPNP-PC, Clinical instructor, Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This one day seminar will discuss the neurobehavioral basis for understanding how infants learn to breastfeed by providing lessons in newborn and infant competence, the role of the breast-seeking reflex, the neurobehavioral basis for the maternal infant relationship and review briefly the biochemical basis for behavior and attachment. The seminar will also examine why current methods of teaching latch can be problematic and provide an alternative approach to helping babies learn to latch by taking advantage of their own innate competence. The neurophysiologic basis for attachment will be examined along with how mothers help their infants calm so that they can learn about latching and breastfeeding. The speakers will discuss how babies can learn to handle emotions and how this can help with subsequent neurodevelopment and affect regulation. The seminar will examine the implications for how we as professionals can better communicate with mothers. The most current information on the newborn’s natural capabilities to initiate and establish milk supply will be addressed.

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Not Enough Milk? Hot Topics, Cool Answers

Friday, October 12, 2007
9:00 am to 4:00pm

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
1798 N. Garey Ave.
Pomona, CA 91767

FACULTY
Chris Moses, RN, IBCLC, is a Staff Nurse III at Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa. She has established and implemented a lactation program for in-hospital and outpatient services.
Tiffany Endo, DO, is a board certified Family Physician with an interest in low-risk obstetrics and is fluent in Vietnamese
Karen Meehan, RD, IBCLC, is the Breastfeeding Projects Coordinator for the Public Health Foundation Enterprises WIC Program

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This full, one day, seminar will provide important and current information about insufficient milk supply: the controversial issues, causes, and treatments. Effective assessment and treatment strategies that address both maternal and infant anatomic and physiologic issues will be addressed. This seminar will provide educational strategies for the mother who does not understand the normal increase in milk volume from the colostral phase to the mature milk phase, as well as give the health care provider assessment techniques to identify the appropriate interventions when there is a true delay in the onset of milk production. The physician and community perspectives will be presented and discussed as well as proactive strategies for overcoming our common challenges will be presented. This seminar will provide clinical strategies and interventions for breastfeeding problems that present in the early postpartum period.

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Critical Updates for the Lactation Professional

 Friday, August 3, 2007
9:00 am to 4:00pm

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Saban Building Auditorium,
4661 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027


Guest Speakers

  • Michal A. Young, M.D., FABM, IBCLC, FAAP Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Howard University College of Medicine and Interim Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. She also serves as Director of the B.L.E.S.S. (Breastfeeding Lactation Education Support Services) Initiative as well as Director of the NICU and Newborn Services at Howard University Hospital. She is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine,. Dr. Young has several publications and presentations covering a range of topics governing infant care. Her research interests are in developmental outcomes of the ELBW infant, HIV perinatal transmission and in breastfeeding education for professionals and parents. Dr. Young speaks nationally about the benefits of human milk for human infants and their families.
  • Grace Aldrovandi, MD, CM. Dr. Aldrovandi works in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at USC.

Target Audience
 Physicians, Registered Nurses, Dietitians, Nutritionists, Occupational Therapists, CPHWs, Lactation Consultants, Lactation Educators, La Leche League Leaders, Health Educators, Doulas, Breastfeeding Peer Counselors and others interested in supporting families in the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding.


Program Description
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on clinical strategies used with mothers and babies when they are having difficulties with breastfeeding. We will delve into the reasons why high risk infants have challenges with latching on and milk transfer and offer some innovative solutions. We will highlight the breastmilk factors that mitigate viral diseases including influenza, CMV and HIV. Diabetes can be a challenge for mothers and infants and breastfeeding in this population can create different challenges. We will examine the clinical and practical implications of breastfeeding on the diabetic dyad and discuss what the health care professional can do to maintain and support breastfeeding with this challenge.

Objectives
 Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:
• Describe clinical strategies to assist mothers during breastfeeding challenges;
• Understand why the high risk infant requires more assistance with latch on and milk transfer;
• Describe the cellular immune response in breastmilk; and to
• Describe the clinical and practical implications of diabetes on the breastfeeding dyad.


Registration Fees
 Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to July 27 $ 90
On or after July 27 or at the door: $100

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Secure Attachment and Successful Breastfeeding: Evidence Based Practices

Friday, September 14, 2007
9:00 am to 4:00pm

Valley Presbyterian Medical Center
15107 Vanowen St., Van Nuys, CA 91405

GUEST SPEAKERS

  • Ellen Steinberg, RN, IBCLC is a lactation consultant in private practice with a special interest in supporting hospitals to improve their
    breastfeeding rates. She assisted Glendale Memorial Medical Center in becoming the first Baby Friendly Hospital in Los Angeles County. Ellen is the President of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.

  • Karen Peters, RD, IBCLC is the Executive Director of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles. She specializes in providing evidenced based education to professionals and parents in normal birth and breastfeeding advocacy.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians, Registered Nurses, Dietitians, Nutritionists, Occupational Therapists, CPHWs, Lactation Consultants, Lactation Educators, La Leche League Leaders, Health Educators, Doulas, Breastfeeding Peer Counselors and others interested in supporting families in the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Exclusive breastfeeding is the goal of all health care organizations but it seems that mothers have many barriers to achieving this. Prenatally, women hear that breastfeeding is best, but they don’t receive the education to feel confident that they will be successful. In the hospital, they know they want to breastfeed, but they see formula in their baby’s crib and in the nursery. When they are home, they hope breastfeeding is going to work out, but they worry they don’t have enough milk.

This full, one day, seminar will provide important and current information to support the development of healthy children by improving exclusive breastfeeding rates. The parent–infant relationship is key to the development of healthy children and successful breastfeeding. Bonding, attachment, and breastfeeding are enhanced with specific post partum practices in the hospital and in the early period of life for the infant at home. Learn how to support prenatal and early postpartum mothers to have positive bonding experiences with their newborn  infants. We will describe specific, supportive positioning and latching techniques, always honoring the mother’s decisions and the infant’s competencies. This seminar will provide clinical strategies and interventions for breastfeeding problems presented in the early postpartum period.

OBJECTIVES
Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • List three skills to facilitate parent/infant attachment;

  • Describe the importance of touch in attachment and self-regulation;

  • Describe three effective methods of teaching breastfeeding; and to

  • Identify three corrective actions for common feeding problems.

REGISTRATION FEES
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to September 7 $90
On or after September 7 or at the door: $100

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Depression and the Breastfeeding Woman
Monday, June 25, 2007
9:00 am to 4:00pm

San Gabriel Valley Medical Center’s
Community Health and Education Center
261 Junipero Serra Drive
San Gabriel, CA 91776

Guest Speaker
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC

  • Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and Research Associate Professor of Psychology specializing in women’s health at the Family Research Lab, University of New Hampshire.

  • Dr. Kendall-Tackett is the author or editor of 15 books including The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood, Depression in New Mothers, and Breastfeeding Made Simple, co-authored with Nancy Mohrbacher. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Human Lactation, and regularly reviews for 27 other journals in the fields of trauma, women’s health, interpersonal violence, depression, and child development and is the “Ask a Lactation Consultant” columnist on Pregnancy.org and serves on the Board of Directors of Attachment Parenting International.

Program Description
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on recent research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) indicating that depression is associated with inflammation. Breastfeeding has a protective effect on maternal mental health by attenuating stress and modulating the inflammatory response. We will also look at a number of scientifically proven treatments for depression and look at what is most compatible with breastfeeding. We will delve into the latest research on how past abuse can affect a woman’s body, mind and spirit and what she can do to overcome these effects. This seminar will also address the negative feelings a substantial number of women feel about their breastfeeding and birth experience and explore what can be done to help them heal from a difficult experience.

Objectives
Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:
• Describe the protective role of breastfeeding and anti-inflammatory treatments;
• List three specific strategies to help with abuse issues;
• Discuss how breastfeeding can have a protective effect on maternal mental health; and to
• Identify the the traumatic stress reaction that women may exhibit after a difficult breastfeeding or birth experience.

Registration Fees
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to June 18 $ 90
On or after June 18 or at the door: $100

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The Natural Laws of Breastfeeding: New Paradigms and Teaching Tools

Friday, May 25, 2007
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd., Northridge, CA 91328

Guest Speaker
Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC
Nancy has been helping breastfeeding families since 1982. Board-certified in 1991, she founded and maintained a large private practice in the Chicago area from 1993 to 2003. She is currently Lactation Consultant for the Ameda Products division of Hollister Incorporated and is Chair of the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition.
Nancy has authored: The Breastfeeding Answer Book Pocket Guide Edition, Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers, The Breastfeeding Answer Book

Program Description
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on the major paradigm shifts in breastfeeding and present new vocabulary and teaching strategies. Areas covered include: babies’ inborn feeding behaviors, breast storage capacity and its effect on breastfeeding patterns, early breastfeeding and newborn stomach size, skin-to-skin and infant physiology. We will provide an in-depth review of the causes and treatment of nipple pain and trauma. Additionally, we will identify inappropriate treatments, comfort measures for a breastfeeding mother with nipple pain, and causes of nipple pain that are complications of nipple trauma or unrelated to nipple damage. You will add more “tools” to your “lactation toolbox” at the video-packed session on latch-on and positioning. Concepts included are asymmetrical latch, sandwich analogy, instinctive feeding position, and baby-led latching; and features clips from Chele Marmet, Chloe Fisher, Jack Newman, Diane Wiessinger, Rebecca Glover, Christina Smillie, and insights from other experts. In the last session, the ethical practices for lactation services will be discussed. (This seminar will provide 1.25 E CERPs for IBCLCs.)

Objectives
Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:
Describe three effective methods of teaching breastfeeding;
Identify four stages of nipple trauma and evidence based treatments for each stage;
Understand the anatomic & physiologic rational for the new latch-on & positioning concepts; and to
List three practices that meet national ethical guidelines for lactation services

Registration Fees
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to May 18: $90
On or after May 18/at the door: $100

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Breastfeeding and Beyond

 Monday, April 23, 2007
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Torrance Memorial Medical Center
3330 Lomita Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90505

Guest Speakers

  • Yvvone Vaucher, MD. MPH is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. At UCSD she is an attending neonatologist in the NICU, Director of the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Program and past Pediatric Director of the UCSD Family Maternity Care Center

  • Jeanette Panchula, BA-SW, RN, PHN, IBCLC provides lactation consultation for the California Department of Health Maternal Child Adolescent, WIC, and Comprehensive Perinatal Services Programs. She also provides breastfeeding, Keys to Caregiving and NCAST education and support to the Public Health Nurses, WIC, MCH and other staff of the Health and Social Services Department of Solano County.

Program Description
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on several important issues that affect breastfeeding promotion and support. PROVIDING BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT: RECOMMENDED MODEL HOSPITAL POLICIES is a document developed to address the actions of hospital staff and administration in providing breastfeeding support. This seminar will demonstrate the internet toolkit which supports the MODEL POLICIES and provides resources for effective implementation of policies to support breastfeeding. We will also discuss how the late-preterm infant, born between 34 - 37 weeks gestation, is physiologically different from the term newborn, why these differences influence the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding, why the near term is at higher risk for breastfeeding failure and what specific guidelines and techniques we can use to help ensure breastfeeding success in this special group. Drugs in breastmilk are of great concern. The effect of illicit drugs on the newborn, the challenges of withdrawal, the issues around methadone treatment, and other psychotropic medications including antidepressants and SSRIs will be discussed. We will explain how to access the Code of Ethics of the Lactation Consultant and interpret its tenants. We will address how the HIPAA and WHO Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes affect the Lactation Consultant. This seminar will provide 1.25 E CERPs for IBCLCs.

Objectives
Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Utilize the Toolkit to find information about the implementation of the Model Hospital Policy Recommendations;

  • Discuss clinical strategies to reduce breastfeeding failure for late-preterm infants;

  • Describe the risks and benefits of SSRIs for the breastfeeding mother and baby; and to

  • Describe 3 ethical responsibilities of a lactation consultant.

Registration Fees
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to April 16: $90
On or after April 16/at the door: $100

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Foundations of Infant Feeding: Application to Breastfeeding Practice
Exploring the Suck/Swallow/Breathe Triad Breastfeeding Seminar

Friday, March 30, 2007 
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
12401 Washington Blvd, Whittier, CA

Guest Speakers
Robin Glass, MS, OTR, IBCLC & Lynn Wolf, MOT, OTR, IBCLC
Ms. Glass and Ms. Wolf practice occupational therapy at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Their clinical specialty is the treatment of infants, with a strong focus on feeding issues. They are NDT trained and Board Certified Lactation Consultants, with extensive national and international experience speaking about infant feeding. They have published numerous journal articles as well as the book Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infancy: Assessment and Management.

Program Description
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on the function of the oral structures, the characteristics of sucking, and the phases of swallowing. Participants will be exposed to successful interventions for oral motor dysfunction in the breastfeeding infant. The special issues that premature infants have with suck/swallow/breathe will be addressed. This seminar will also provide clinical strategies to support and maintain breastfeeding in infants with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

Objectives
Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the pathophysiologic principles underlying the suck-swallow-breathe triad and how they apply to breastfeeding;

  • Identify several oral motor difficulties that interfere with effective latch and milk transfer and treatment strategies for these problems;

  • Formulate a strategy to develop breastfeeding skills in the premature infant; and to

  • Understand the mechanisms underlying gastroesophageal reflux and its relationship to breastfeeding difficulties.

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Controversies in Breastfeeding Support and Management

Friday, February 23, 2007
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Van Dyke Theater
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
2801 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, California

Guest Speaker:

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC is a Toronto pediatrician who has practiced medicine since 1970. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto medical school. In 1984 he established the first hospital-based breastfeeding clinic in Canada at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. He has practiced as a physician in Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. He now holds breastfeeding clinics in several hospitals in the Toronto area. He is a consultant with UNICEF's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, and is a popular speaker at breastfeeding conferences across North America and beyond.  

Dr. Newman has several publications on breastfeeding:

v      Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, revised 2006

v      Dr. Jack Newman’s Visual Guide to Breastfeeding, DVD, 2005

v      The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding, 2006 

Program Description

This full day seminar is designed to offer current information and address controversies in breastfeeding. Participants will be exposed to  successful approaches useful in the maternity care hospital and the early outpatient setting. Case studies will be presented to illustrate ways to support the breastfeeding dyad when the baby refuses to latch. Ethical dilemmas about issues of guilt and the risks of formula feeding will be addressed.  (This seminar will provide 1.25 E CERPs for IBCLCs.) This seminar will also provide clinical strategies and interventions to support and maintain breastfeeding in infants with jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) and low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).   

Objectives

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

¨      Describe two controversies in basic breastfeeding management;

¨      Evaluate a case study of a baby who refuses to latch and discuss approaches to protect the breastfeeding relationship;

¨      List two interventions which increase a baby’s risks due to formula feeding and our ethical role in prevention of those risks; and to

¨      Discuss the role breastfeeding plays in evaluation and treatment of jaundice and list three interventions to support continued breastfeeding.

Agenda

9:00 Registration
9:30 Just what are the essentials of breastfeeding?
10:45 Break
11:00 What to do when the baby refuses to latch?
12:15 Lunch
1:15 What is our ethical role in breastfeeding and guilt?
2:30 Break
2:45 How can we avoid having hypoglycemia and jaundice interfere with breastfeeding?
4:00 Adjourn

Registration Fees
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to February 16: $ 90
On or after Feb 16/at the door: $100

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Proactive Breastfeeding Support and Management

 Wednesday, November 15, 2006
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90813

Faculty

Jane Morton, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Breastfeeding Medicine, Stanford University, Medical Director of Lactation Support, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Amy Spangler, MN, RN, IBCLC, President, Amy’s Babies, Author of BREASTFEEDING, A Parent’s Guide, BREASTFEEDING, Keep It Simple, BREASTFEEDING, Your guide to a healthy, happy baby, and Clinical Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding.

Program Description

This full day seminar is designed to offer current information to answer the following questions:

Is there such a thing as “simple and proactive” breastfeeding management?

  • What basic skills and knowledge do mothers need to learn?

  • Is breastfeeding important enough to ask all care providers to become more involved in a stronger support system?

  • Why do women prematurely discontinue breastfeeding?

  • How can care providers become more involved in a stronger support system?

Participants will be exposed to a variety of teaching materials and methods designed to target all types of learners. . This seminar will also address the need for cultural change in the face of resistance, the barriers to breastfeeding, and strategies for helping women achieve their breastfeeding goals.

Objectives

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Identify three key educational components in the AAP Breastfeeding Residency Curriculum as “basic skills” for all care providers to teach new mothers;

  • Identify the principles of adult learning;

  • Relate the advantages of teaching mothers a cross-chest hold and asymmetric latch; and to

  • Identify cultural factors that impact a woman's choice to breastfeed.

Agenda

9:00 Registration

9:30 An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Cure: Simplified, Proactive Breastfeeding Management

10:45 Break

11:00 Mastering the Art of Teaching without Preaching

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Skills and Knowledge to Prevent Premature Discontinuation of Breastfeeding

2:30 Break

2:45 Supporting Breastfeeding in a Bottle- feeding Culture

4:00 Adjourn

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Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy: Issues and Answers

 Monday, October 9, 2006
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center 501 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91505
(818) 843-5111

Program Description

This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on how breastfeeding beyond the first six months of life can reduce the risks to mothers and babies of cancer, diabetes, respiratory infections, osteoporosis and obesity. We will explore the role and benefits that breastfeeding has on a child’s development. This seminar will discuss some of the barriers families face regarding breastfeeding the older baby including plugged ducts, night waking, teething, fertility issues, extended breastfeeding and weaning. We will identify the nutritional and developmental rationale for introduction of other foods at 6 months and explore the appropriate first foods both breastfed and formula-fed children. Clinical strategies and interventions to support and maintain breastfeeding for employed mothers will be discussed.

Objectives

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Identify at least two benefits of long-term breastfeeding;

  • Explain the developmental issues related to night time waking;

  • Articulate the importance of the protein/calorie ratio when choosing complementary foods for the breastfed infant;

  • Assist the breastfeeding mother in determining her unique physical, emotional and environmental needs as she returns to the workplace.

Agenda

9:00 Registration

9:30 Benefits of Breastfeeding the Older Baby

10:45 Break

11:00 Strategies to Overcome Challenges of Breastfeeding the Older Baby

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Appropriate Introduction of Complementary Foods into the Diet of the Exclusively Breastfed Baby

2:30 Break

2:45 Making it Work for the Employed Breastfeeding Mother and Baby

4:00 Adjourn

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Task Force Seminar: Critical Factors in Breastfeeding Success A Day with “Dr. Mom” Marianne Neifert

A Day with Marianne Neifert, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Marianne Niefert, MD, FAAP, Critical Factors for Early Breastfeeding Success, Causes and Management of Insufficient Milk, The 2005 AAP Breastfeeding Policy Statement, Improving the Quality of Your Journey, CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered.

DATE/TIME/LOCATION
Thursday, August 3, 2006
9:30am to 4:30pm
Thalians Building, Plaza Level Auditorium
8730 Alden Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90048

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Many women encounter early breastfeeding difficulties that jeopardize long-term success. This full day seminar is designed to offer current information to equip physicians and other health care providers to promote and support the successful onset of breastfeeding and effectively troubleshoot early lactation difficulties. Emphasis will be given to the role of the early follow-up visit in preventing maternal complaints and infant morbidities, including malnutrition, dehydration, and hyperbilirubinemia.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently released their revised policy statement on breastfeeding, entitled “Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk.” We will summarize the major content of the revised policy, including new practice recommendations to promote successful breastfeeding.

Participants will gain an understanding of the mechanisms by which lactation difficulties become complicated by low milk, and review common maternal and infant factors contributing to insufficient lactation. Specific management strategies for increasing maternal milk production and improving the nutritional status of underweight breastfed infants will be discussed.

Additionally, Marianne Neifert, M.D.--widely known as “Dr. Mom”--will share hard-earned wisdom for enjoying more satisfying personal and professional lives and experiencing individual growth and self-discovery. Come prepared to laugh and learn - leave rejuvenated, re-energized, and excited about your life and your work!

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Long Beach Memorial/Miller Children's Training Course
Gentle Transitions: Enhancing Perinatal Practice in the 21st Century

Program Description

This 16-hour course provides the evidence, knowledge and skills participants need to confidently support, establish and protect both early mother-infant attachment and breastfeeding in the hospital setting. It will highlight the personal tools necessary to enhance early parent-infant attachment, and help families to listen to and understand the language of the newborn. Emphasis will be on honoring the mother’s beliefs and choices of infant feeding.

The model for this course was developed by the Perinatal Services Network at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Through the Birth and Beyond Course, Perinatal Services Network has provided education to over 2,200 health professionals in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.

This course will be offered monthly by the Long Beach Memorial/Miller Children's Hospital staff, enhancing the Task Force dates. Registration Fee: $160 Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, syllabus, and continuing education credit. Lunch is on your own.

Session 1 Jan. 16 and 30
Session 2 Feb. 10 and 17
Session 3 March 10 and 17
Session 4 April 17 and 24
Session 5 May 15 and 22
Session 6 May 30 and June 8

Seats are limited to 10 each session. Register by calling Lissette at 562-933-0627.

Task Force Training Course: Gentle Transitions: Enhancing Perinatal Practice in the 21st Century

Program Description

This 16-hour course provides the evidence, knowledge and skills participants need to confidently support, establish and protect both early mother-infant attachment and breastfeeding in the hospital setting. It will highlight the personal tools necessary to enhance early parent-infant attachment, and help families to listen to and understand the language of the newborn. Emphasis will be on honoring the mother’s beliefs and choices of infant feeding.

The model for this course was developed by the Perinatal Services Network at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Through the Birth and Beyond Course, Perinatal Services Network has provided education to over 2,200 health professionals in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.

Objectives

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Create an environment that supports and enhances the newborn’s natural capabilities;

  • Demonstrate the skills necessary to organize care to maximize mother and infant skin-to-skin contact and bonding;

  • Identify the biologic, nutritional and immunologic properties of breastfeeding and the risks of artificial milk; and to

  • Recognize and discuss solutions to alleviate common barriers to supporting mothers’ choice to exclusively breastfeeding.

This 16-hour course is offered in two 8-hour days. Day 1 and Day 2 must be taken together in the session dates offered below.

Sessions       Day 1       Day 2
1                  April 12      April 26
2                  May 10      May 24
3                  May 17      May 31
4                  June 7       June 21
5                  June 14     June 28
6                  July 12      July 19

Location: Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA

Classroom Location will be sent with Registration Confirmation

7:45 am Registration
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Class

This 16-hour course provides the evidence and knowledge to confidently support, establish and protect both early mother-infant attachment and breastfeeding in the hospital setting. This course was developed by the Perinatal Services Network at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Through the Birth and Beyond Course, Perinatal Services Network has provided education to over 1,800 health professionals in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Breastfeeding Task Force members who have been trained by the Perinatal Services Network will teach this course.

Registration Fee: $160
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, syllabus, and continuing education credit. No lunch will be provided.

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Task Force Seminar: The Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding - A Day with Linda Smith

DATE/TIME/LOCATION
Friday, May 26, 2006
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Citrus Valley Medical Center:
Queen of the Valley Campus
1115 S. Sunset Avenue
West Covina, CA 91790

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on the impact of birthing practices on breastfeeding. We will discuss the maternal risks of birth medications and procedures; birth stress on mother and baby; Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative; management of early breast problems. We will explore infant oral structures including muscle groups and cranial nerves that affect suck; suck-swallow-breathe cycle; effects of birth medications and procedures; visual and physical assessment skills; management strategies to support infant feeding. Research on SIDS, infant mortality, public policy, skin-to-skin contact and safe bed-sharing are presented. We will explore the fine art of effective, proactive strategies for promoting breastfeeding without alienating mothers who do not breastfeed; and address the "guilt" issue and documented facts about infant feeding outcomes.

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Task Force Seminar: April 10, 2006, Risks of Not Breastfeeding: Diabetes, Obesity and More: A Day with Marsha Walker. Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC, Breastfeeding, Diabetes, and Obesity: The Endocrine Connection, Supplementing the Breastfed Baby: Needed or Needless, Hazards of Infant Formula: What You Will Never Find on the Label, Marketing of Infant Formula: The Selling Out of Mothers and Babies. CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered.

DATE & TIME / LOCATION
Monday, April 10, 2006
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Good Samaritan Hospital-Moseley-Salvatori Conference Center
636 S. Lucas Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90017

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This full day seminar is designed to offer important, current information of the effects of breastfeeding on the occurrence of diabetes and obesity in infancy and childhood. Strategies for supporting lactation when the mother has diabetes and/or is obese will be presented.
We will explore the conditions where supplementation may be necessary and methods to provide for optimal infant nutrition. This seminar will describe the health outcomes of not being breastfed and the side effects of the use of infant formula. We will delve into the methods used to market infant formula and discuss the effects of false and misleading advertising.

REGISTRATION FEES
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to April 9: Individual $90; Group $80; *Package: $150.
After April 10/at door: Individual $100; Group $90.
Group Rate: 3 or more people received in the same envelope, fax or online.
*Seminar Package: Register for both the Marsha Walker April 10 and Peter Hartman April 19 seminars for $150.

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Task Force Seminar: April 19, 2006, Applying New Evidence-Based Research to Lactation Care: From the breast to the baby or the pump. A Day with Peter Hartman. Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Peter Hartman, PhD, Experience based vs Evidence based care for breastfeeding mothers, Breast anatomy and milk ejection, Initiation and establishment of lactation - preterm, Expression of breastmilk using an electric breast pump. CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered.

DATE & TIME / LOCATION
Wednesday April 19, 2006
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Houssels Forum, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
2801 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, CA

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This full day seminar is designed to offer current information about the application of evidence-based medicine to human lactation. Our lack of breastfeeding duration is not surprising when the evidence based care of the lactating breast is compared to that of other metabolically equivalent organs in the body. We will describe ultrasound imaging of the structure and function of the lactating breast. The physiology of milk ejection will be discussed in relation to successful breastfeeding and breast expression. This seminar will also describe factors affecting the timing of the initiation of lactation following pre-term delivery, the variation in milk composition once lactation has been established, and the implication of these findings in relation to the nourishment of the pre-term baby. We will describe the physiology and biochemistry of milk synthesis, milk secretion, milk ejection, infant sucking and infant appetite to develop efficient breast pumps and breast pumping protocols.

REGISTRATION FEES
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.
Prior to April 9: Individual $90; Group $80; *Package: $150.
After April 10/at door: Individual $100; Group $90.
Group Rate: 3 or more people received in the same envelope, fax or online.
*Seminar Package: Register for both the Marsha Walker April 10 and Peter Hartman April 19 seminars for $150.

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Task Force Seminar: Current Topics and Controversies in Neonatal Breastfeeding

Wednesday, November 30, 2005
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
15031 Rinaldi St.
Mission Hills, CA 91346
(818) 365-8051

Faculty:

  • Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP Attending Neonatologist, Children's Hospital & Health Center & Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women, Medical Director, Sharp HealthCare Lactation Services, Asst. Clinical Professor, Dept. Pediatrics, UCSD School of Medicine

  • Deanna Lisa Bollman, RNC, CPHQ Executive Director, Community Perinatal Network, Past-President, Board of Directors, Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater LA

  • Karen Peters, MBA, RD, IBCLC Executive Director of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.

This full day seminar is designed to offer current information on the indications for supplementation and the consequences of inappropriate supplementation of the breastfed infant. Breastfeeding-supportive management of jaundice in the breastfed infant will be described. We will explore: the unique risks of Near Term Infants; systematic approaches to preventing complications; as well as the overarching contribution optimal breastfeeding can make in risk reduction. This seminar will also take the participants though the evolution of the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign: including the initial development, the controversy that resulted in the dilution of the message and the delay in the launch, and the final media and survey results.

Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, lunch, syllabus, and continuing education credit.

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Task Force Training Course: Gentle Transitions: Enhancing Perinatal Practice in the 21st Century

Program Description

This 16-hour course provides the evidence, knowledge and skills participants need to confidently support, establish and protect both early mother-infant attachment and breastfeeding in the hospital setting. It will highlight the personal tools necessary to enhance early parent-infant attachment, and help families to listen to and understand the language of the newborn. Emphasis will be on honoring the mother’s beliefs and choices of infant feeding.

The model for this course was developed by the Perinatal Services Network at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Through the Birth and Beyond Course, Perinatal Services Network has provided education to over 2,200 health professionals in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Miller Children’s Hospital Lactation staff and Breastfeeding Task Force members who have been trained by the Perinatal Services Network will present this course.

Objectives

Following the didactic presentations, participants will be able to:

  • Create an environment that supports and enhances the newborn’s natural capabilities;

  • Demonstrate the skills necessary to organize care to maximize mother and infant skin-to-skin contact and bonding;

  • Identify the biologic, nutritional and immunologic properties of breastfeeding and the risks of artificial milk; and to

  • Recognize and discuss solutions to alleviate common barriers to supporting mothers’ choice to exclusively breastfeeding.

This 16-hour course is offered in two 8-hour days. Day 1 and Day 2 must be taken together in the session dates offered below.

Sessions
Mondays, Dec 5 & Dec 19, 2005

Location
Miller Children’s Hospital, Classroom #1
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
2801 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90806
7:45 am Registration
8:00 am – 5:00 pm Class

This 16-hour course provides the evidence and knowledge to confidently support, establish and protect both early mother-infant attachment and breastfeeding in the hospital setting.
This course was developed by the Perinatal Services Network at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Through the Birth and Beyond Course, Perinatal Services Network has provided education to over 1,800 health professionals in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
Miller Children’s Hospital Lactation staff and Breastfeeding Task Force members who have been trained by the Perinatal Services Network will teach this course.

Registration Fee: $160
Registration fee includes: continental breakfast, syllabus, and continuing education credit. No lunch will be provided.

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Task Force Seminar: Best Practices for Exclusive Breastfeeding in the Latino Family

Thursday, November 10, 2005 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
St. Francis Career College
3680 E. Imperial Hwy
Lynwood, California 90262
4th Floor, Room #400A

Parking is limited, please carpool. FREE parking behind, around, and under the Career College building. Enter behind the building. OK to park anywhere it it clearly signed for St. Francis Career College, but do not park where it is designated for faculty.

Faculty:

  • Luz Chacon, MPH, CLE is the Health Policy and Education Coordinator for Maternal and Child Health Access. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.

  • Josie Orellana, CLE, IBCLC is the Peer Counselor Supervisor for PHFE Management Solutions WIC Program.

  • Karen Peters, MBA, RD, IBCLC is the Executive Director of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.

This seminar is designed to provide the participant with the most current information on the breastfeeding rates among both US Born and foreign born Latinas in the Los Angeles area and California. Two models for providing breastfeeding support will be described: one is an intensive case management program and the other is a peer counselor program. We will explore strategies to improve breastfeeding initiation and duration rates through culturally competent support.

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Task Force Seminar: Breastmilk: An Informed Mother's Choice in the New Millennium - Breastfeeding Awareness Month Celebration.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Torrance Memorial Medical Center
3330 Lomita Blvd., Torrance, CA 90505

Faculty:

  • Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP, IBCLC emphasizes pediatric and family nutrition at his private practice in Santa Monica. He is a member of the teaching and clinical faculty at UCLA, Cedars-Sinai Hospital and the Lactation Institute. Dr. Gordon is a monthly contributing author of Fit Pregnancy magazine. He is the author of Good Food Today, Great Kids Tomorrow, Good Nights: The Happy Parents’ Guide to the Family Bed (And a Peaceful Night’s Sleep!) and Listening to Your Baby: A New Approach to Parenting Your Newborn.

  • Audrey J. Naylor, MD, DrPH, FAAP, FABM is the President and CEO of Wellstart International. She is a Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr Naylor is the Chair of the Leadership Team of the United States Breastfeeding Committee.

  • Luz Chacon, MPH, CLE is the Health Policy and Education Coordinator for Maternal Child Health Access. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.

  • Karen Peters, MBA, RD, IBCLC is the Executive Director of the Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles.

This seminar is designed to provide the participant with The most current information on the persuasive evidence of the fundamental importance of breastfeeding to mother, baby, family, employers and the community. It will highlight the impact of breastfeeding on maternal behavior and reproductive success. We will explore strategies to improve breastfeeding awareness and breastfeeding initiation and duration rates through personal and political advocacy. CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered.

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Task Force Seminar: The Power of Breastmilk - Its role in preventing childhood obesity, enhancing immune function, and ensuring optimal outcomes for premature & term infants. What you need to know to apply current research in your practice.

Friday, August 5, 2005 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Faculty:

  • Grace Aldrovandi, MD, CM, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, USC

  • Lori Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH, FAAP, Division Head of Adolescent Medicine, The Children’s Regional Hospital-Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

  • Philippe Friedlich, MD, Medical Director, Center for Newborn and Infant Critical Care, Children’s Hospital LA, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, USC

  • Jane Morton, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Breastfeeding Medicine, Stanford University, Medical Director of Lactation Support, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Pauline Sakamoto, RN, MS, Executive Director, Mothers Milk Bank, San Jose, CA

This seminar is designed to provide the participant with an advanced look at the impact of breastfeeding on childhood obesity, including a literature review and a discussion on the insulin and leptin evidence. We will explore clinical strategies to improve breastfeeding rates derived from an Interdisciplinary Training Program focusing on culturally competent care. It will highlight the breastmilk factors that mitigate viral diseases including influenza, CMV and HIV. We will discuss the uses of donor human milk. This seminar will provide current information, practical tips and interventions to support and maintain breastfeeding in preterm, near term and term infants. CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered.  

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Task Force Seminar: Promoting, Protecting and Supporting Breastfeeding in the African American Family

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 from 9:00am to 4:30pm

Memorial Campus of Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center
333 N Prairie Ave
Inglewood, CA 90301
310-674-7050

This all day workshop is designed to provide the participant with information and tools for use with pregnant, birthing, breastfeeding and early parenting African American populations. Emphasis will be placed on the benefits and barriers of breastfeeding particular to the African American population. Strategies to dispel common myths and perceived challenges, as well as actual barriers, will be presented from the perspective of the breastfeeding advocates, nurses, and parents. The workshop will include small work groups, panel discussions, and lecture formats. CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered.

Faculty:

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeed: It's Too Important Not To - First Responders Workshop 

Wednesday, June 29, 2005, Ventura, CA

Who should attend the First Responders Workshop:

People with early contact with pregnant and parenting families. Home visiting health care providers, CPHWs, Health Educators, Early Head Start staff, WIC staff, BIH staff, Promotoras, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Registered Nurses, and others interested in supporting families in the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding.

This interactive work shop is an orientation to the importance of promoting breastfeeding as the normal way of feeding infants. We will explore personal beliefs, feelings and issues surrounding breast-feeding, the value of breastfeeding to family and society, overcoming barriers to breastfeeding, and how to advocate, empower and support clients in their efforts to breastfeed.

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Task Force Seminar: Train the Trainer- Breastfeed: It's Too Important Not To -

Wednesday, June 29, 2005, Ventura, CA

Who should attend the Train the Trainer Workshop:

People with supervisory and training responsibilities in health care settings: Health Educators, WIC staff, BIH staff, Promotoras, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Registered Nurses. 

This workshop is intended to provide the skills and resources as preparation for teaching the basic workshop: Breastfeed: It’s Too Important Not To. Participants will learn the teaching techniques for successful workshop training.

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Task Force Seminar: Scientific Explanations for Nature’s Breastfeeding Miracles

Friday, May 27, 2005 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
5601 De Soto Ave.
Woodland Hills, CA 91365
(818) 719-2000

This seminar is designed to provide the participant with a look at innate infant competencies and instinctive behaviors, and how our methods for teaching latch can either facilitate or interfere with infant learning. It will explore the maternal-infant relationship, the neurobiological basis for attachment, and what this means for the infant's developing abilities to regulate state, mood, and affect. We will discuss the impact of being underweight on infant intake and the cycle of slow weight gain. Multidisciplinary lactation specialists will share practical tips and tools for protecting breastfeeding when the infant is gaining slowly.

Faculty:

  • Christina M. Smillie, MD, FAAP, IBCLC, FABM, Medical Director, Breastfeeding Resources, Stratford, Connecticut, Member of the Board of Directors, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Member of the Health Advisory Council to the Professional Advisory Council of La Leche League International, Member, Leadership Team, Section on Breastfeeding, American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Kathy Petters-Armitage, MPH, Baby Friendly Project Coordinator, LA County Department of Health Services, Member of the Board of Directors, Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater LA

Christina Smillie, MD, IBCLC, FAAP, FABM, Baby-Led Latching: A neurobehavioral model for how infants learn to latch, Mother/Baby Right-brain to Right-brain Communication, Management of Slow Growth Infants, CERP, CEU, CPE, CME offered. 

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeeding Issues in the Asian American Families

Friday, May 6, 2005 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
San Gabriel Valley Medical Center
438 West Las Tunas Drive
San Gabriel, CA 91778
(626) 289-5454

This all day workshop is designed to provide the participant with information and tools for use with pregnant, birthing, breastfeeding and early parenting Asian populations living in California. Experts from within each group will share information intended to directly impact the way healthcare providers interact with each group. Cultural awareness and sensitivity will be stressed. Integration of culturally appropriate individuals, methods and concepts will be stressed. The workshop will include small group work, panel discussions, and lecture formats.

Faculty:
  • Kim P. Nguyen, MS, Research Nutritionist, University of California, Berkley
  • Susan Aldana, IBCLC, La Leche League Peer Counselor Training Administrator, Watts Healthcare WIC Program
  • Wendy McGrail, MPH, RD, Senior Nutritionist, PHFE WIC
     

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeed: It's Too Important Not To - First Responders Workshop Wednesday, May 11, 2005, Ventura, CA

Who should attend the First Responders Workshop:

People with early contact with pregnant and parenting families. Home visiting health care providers, CPHWs, Health Educators, Early Head Start staff, WIC staff, BIH staff, Promotoras, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Registered Nurses, and others interested in supporting families in the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding.

This interactive work shop is an orientation to the importance of promoting breastfeeding as the normal way of feeding infants. We will explore personal beliefs, feelings and issues surrounding breast-feeding, the value of breastfeeding to family and society, overcoming barriers to breastfeeding, and how to advocate, empower and support clients in their efforts to breastfeed.

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Task Force Seminar: Train the Trainer- Breastfeed: It's Too Important Not To - Wednesday, May 11, 2005, Ventura, CA

Who should attend the Train the Trainer Workshop:

People with supervisory and training responsibilities in health care settings: Health Educators, WIC staff, BIH staff, Promotoras, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Registered Nurses. 

This workshop is intended to provide the skills and resources as preparation for teaching the basic workshop: Breastfeed: It’s Too Important Not To. Participants will learn the teaching techniques for successful workshop training.

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Task Force Seminar: Common Breastfeeding Complications in the Term & Near Term Infant

Thursday, March 24, 2005 from 7:30 am to 2 pm.
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier
12401 Washington Blvd, Whittier, 90602
(562) 698-0811

This seminar will highlight the major points and especially the changes made in the new AAP Breastfeeding Policy Statement which will have been published in Pediatrics in the February 2005 issue.

It is designed to offer current information, clinical strategies and interventions to support and maintain breastfeeding in term and near term infants with common neonatal complications. Complications discussed will include: low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and dehydration. These complications are frequently seen as contraindications to breastfeeding but that need not be so with careful support from health care providers.

Faculty:

Prior to March 10: $90
March 11 to March 17: $100
Seating is limited to the first 70 registrants. There will be no onsite registration.

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeeding: Grand Challenges, Creative Solutions

Monday, February 21, 2005 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
1798 N. Garey Avenue
Pomona, CA 91767
(909) 865-9500

This full day workshop will provide useful information on how modern hospital birth practices impact and distract from mother/infant bonding and breastfeeding. This workshop will provide practical tips, tools and information for nurses, lactation educators and others who support mothers in the early postpartum period to accurately and effectively teach pumping and storage techniques. And this workshop will explore the effect of birth and breastfeeding on the process of early childhood attachment and family role development, including the maternal role, the infant well being state and family unity.

Faculty:

  • Karen Peters, RD, IBCLC, LCCE, Executive Director, BTFGLA
  • Sandra Apgar Steffes, RN, MS, LCCE, Program Coordinator, UCLA Extension Lactation Education Programs
  • Nancy Williams, MA, MFT, CCE, IBCLC, Private Psychotherapy Practice, Instructor, Chapman University

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FREE Continuing Education: Using Evidence Based Data to Understand Prematurity in LA County by Lisa Bollman, RNC (1 CEU/CERP/CPE) Monday, February 14, 2005

Task Force Seminar: Making Breastfeeding Work: Why, Who and How

Friday, December 3, 2004 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Houssels Forum, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, 2801 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach, CA. Phone: 562-933-2000

This full day workshop will provide useful information on Why the Ten Steps of the Baby Friendly Policies have been written by reviewing the peer reviewed research to support them. It will focus on Who is offering breastfeeding programs and support and suggest strategies for improvement. And it will show How to make breastfeeding work with in-depth discussion on several advanced lactation topics: the mechanism of transfer of medications, illicit drugs, alcohol, nicotine, toxic flame retardants, and mercury into breastmilk; the many steps involved in transitioning the premature baby from bottle or tube feeding to fully breastfeeding; and the process of ethical decision making in lactation services, fulfilling the requirement for IBCLCs to have E CERPs for professional ethics topics.

Speakers:

  • Susan Aldana, IBCLC, Lactation Consultant

  • Karen Peters, RD, IBCLC, Executive Director, BTFGLA

  • Wendy Slusser, MD, MS, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA; Schools of Medicine and Public Health

  • Sandra Apgar Steffes, RN, MS, Program Coordinator, UCLA Extension Lactation Education Programs

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Task Force Seminar: Baby-Friendly Hospitals: Model Policies

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at ValleyCare Olive View-UCLA
Medical Center. 14445 Olive View Dr., Sylmar, California 91342. Phone: 818-364-1555

IBCLCs: this seminar will help you meet your need for continuing education on Ethics.

Topics: Baby Friendly Initiative: Model Policies, Balancing What You Believe and What You Do: The Business of Being Ethical, One Hospital’s Journey toward Baby Friendly, Model Hospital Policies from Theory to Practice (interactive workshop).

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Task Force Seminar: A Day With Breastfeeding Experts: Featuring Dr. Ruth Lawrence

Tuesday, September 21, 2004 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital-Moseley-Salvatori Conference Center. 636 S. Lucas Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90017

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeed: It's Too Important Not To - First Responders Workshop  Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Los Angeles, CA

Who should attend the First Responders Workshop:

People with early contact with pregnant and parenting families. Home visiting health care providers, CPHWs, Health Educators, Early Head Start staff, WIC staff, BIH staff, Promotoras, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Registered Nurses, and others interested in supporting families in the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding.

This interactive work shop is an orientation to the importance of promoting breastfeeding as the normal way of feeding infants. We will explore personal beliefs, feelings and issues surrounding breast-feeding, the value of breastfeeding to family and society, overcoming barriers to breastfeeding, and how to advocate, empower and support clients in their efforts to breastfeed.

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeeding Basics: Benefits, Barriers & Beyond. A Workshop

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (Doctor’s Tower, “A” Level Auditorium) 1300 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027.

This full day seminar will provide important and useful knowledge and techniques to assist healthcare professionals in their care of breastfeeding mothers and babies, including: state-of-the-art information on the risks of not breastfeeding; anatomy and physiology of lactation, principles of supply and demand, infant positioning and attachment, feeding patterns and the use of supplements. Common barriers and solutions will also be discussed, including: management of common problems, empowerment, and principles of mother to mother support.

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Task Force Seminar: Breastfeeding Hot Topics, Cool Answers.

Postpartum Depression, Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding, Evidence Based Practices, Designing Professional Education on June 16, 2004 - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, CA  Download Brochure and Registration Form

Breastfeeding Babies with Common Complications: Jaundice, Hypoglycemia and Maternal Infections

PAC-LAC Annual Conference - Quality Life for Families VIII: Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy on May 6, 2004 at Sportsmen’s Lodge Download Brochure and Registration Form

Labor Assistant/Birth Doula Training - Sierra Madre, CA on May 14-16, 2004. For more information, please call Moraya at: (310) 452-2527 or visit the ALACE website at: www.alace.org In a series of six clinical trials, the presence of Labor Assistants resulted in 50% fewer cesareans, a 25% reduction in the length of labor, 30% less usage of pain medication, 40% less use of the drug pitocin, and 50% fewer epidurals. Mothers who have labor assistants are up to 70% more likely to be exclusively breastfeeding one month after birth.

Friday, March 19, 2004, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Long Beach CA. Lawrence Gartner, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago. Download Brochure and Registration Form

Kangaroo Mother Care and Breastfeeding September 2, 2003 by Nils Bergman speaking in Los Angeles. Cedars Sinai Medical Center Grand Rounds. Download Seminar Brochure & Registration Form

To learn more about him, you can visit his web site www.kangaroomothercare.com where you will find a great deal of unique information about facilitating breastfeeding. In particular, be sure to see the entire series of pictures of a small preterm infant and the process of learning to breastfeed. These are extraordinary, similar to those of Widstrom and of Righard for fullterms. This is exactly what has worked so well for preterms in Sweden; however the process for preterms has never been documented like this and so well before. Dr. Bergman is receiving the LLLI Award for Best Speaker, 2002, this July; he is speaking in Australia for ILCA in August; and he is funded by the Thrasher Foundation and is currently conducting a randomized controlled trial of kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care beginning at birth for preterm infants (~1200-2500 grams). His findings to date are &