Description
Breastfeeding is the most natural thing to do, but it does not come naturally. This is especially true for families and their preterm infants. Feeding Specialists who work with infants need to have a basic understanding of breastfeeding – the importance of breastfeeding, insight into ways to promote, protect and support breastfeeding, common challenges and the supportive interventions that help the family and infant succeed. This presentation will address information on the benefits of human milk, steps in the process of learning to breastfeed, basic information about breastfeeding, and strategies to support breastfeeding in the first few hours through to when (if) a parent returns to work. This course covers strategies for protecting breastfeeding, best practices for identifying volume transfer at breast, and steps to achieving an effective latch. It also covers main points related to ankyloglossia and common struggles with breastfeeding infants who have medical/congenital comorbidities. The important differences between volume and calories as measures of nutrition are also reviewed.
OBJECTIVES:
After attending this webinar, the participant will be able to:
- List one strategy for protecting breastfeeding
- Describe how to identify volume transfer at breast
- Explain steps to achieving an effective latch
- List two points from the AAP Consensus on Ankyloglossia
- Describe subsets of infants who will struggle the most with breastfeeding in the Downs Syndrome population
- Explain why volume is not the best measure of nutrition in breastfed infants
AGENDA:
| 0:00 | – | 0:20 | Overview, benefits of breastfeeding |
| 0:20 | – | 0:45 | Promoting, supporting, protecting breastfeeding, health inequities |
| 0:45 | – | 1:05 | Establishing milk supply |
| 1:05 | – | 1:25 | Steps towards breastfeeding |
| 1:25 | – | 1:45 | Barriers and strategies: Milk quantity/quality concerns |
| 1:45 | – | 2:00 | Break |
| 2:00 | 2:15 | Barriers and strategies: Problems with latch/suck, lack of information and support, myths about breastfeeding | |
| 2:15 | – | 3:00 | Barriers and strategies: Discharge and returning to work |
| 3:00 | – | 3:45 | Special populations and NICU-specific strategies |
| 3:45 | – | 4:00 | Question and Answer period, Wrap up |
Course Information and Completion Requirements
Intended Audience: Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapy Practitioners, Lactation Consultants, Registered Dietitians, Special Education Teachers, Psychologists, Physical Therapists, Early Intervention Specialists, Nurses, Physicians, and Mental Health Workers. Note: Training conferences are available for professionals only.
Course Level: This course is an intermediate level course: Information is geared to practitioners with a general working knowledge of current practice trends and literature related to the subject matter. Focus is on increasing understanding and competent application of the subject matter. Prerequisite – None
Instructional method: This course is offered via Zoom on a specified date and time. Video access and quiz offered on your attendee’s dashboard through www.ce-go.com.
Content Disclosure: None
Access Information: A continuing education certificate for the event will be obtained using the website, CE-Go. Before the event, you will receive an email containing a link to CE-Go. (This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.)
- Join webinar session
- Complete required quiz
- Complete evaluation form for the event
- Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format
To ensure Learners successfully achieve the Learning Outcomes above and to satisfy the completion requirements and continuing education credits, all attendees are expected to attend the webinar course in its entirety. We use a platform that tracks the amount of time learners are signed in to the platform. This course is not offered for partial credit. Click for full policy for attendance
The requirements for completion are as follows:
- Attend the virtual course in its entirety Click for full policy for attendance
- Pass the 10-question multiple choice quiz with a score of 100% (may be taken repeatedly and the quiz is available as a handout to identify the questions)
- Complete the course evaluation
If requesting ASHA CEUs, you must inform us at the time of registration.
Professional Development Provider: Feeding Fundamentals, LLC. Contact us at [email protected]
Presenter Information
Presented by: Dr. Erin Ross: Internationally recognized Infant Feeding Specialist, Speech Pathologist, and creator of SOFFI®, Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants in the NICU. She has worked in child development clinics, feeding clinics, and home settings, and currently continues her work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Ross has also authored book chapters on feeding development and pediatric feeding disorders.
Speaker Financial Disclosures:
Erin Ross is the owner of Feeding Fundamentals, LLC and owns the intellectual property (inclusive of SOFFI®) and receives a salary. She also receives a salary as a faculty member of the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions and as a Developmental Specialist for the HCA HealthONE Hospital Systems. Dr. Ross is a paid consultant for Gerber Baby Foods (Nestec/Nestlé) and Intertek. She is paid as a speaker for Toomey and Associates, Inc. and receives royalties for content.
Speaker Non-financial Disclosure:
Dr. Ross is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Ross has written related book chapters for Elsevier and Thieme Publishers. Dr. Ross also is a member of the Consensus Committee for Infant and Family Developmentally Supportive Care in ICU, and a member of the Pediatric Feeding Disorder Alliance for Feeding Matters. She is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) as well as a member of the NIDCAP Federation International.
Policies
ADA Accommodations: Feeding Fundamentals, LLC complies with ADA provisions. Every effort will be made to accommodate requests. Virtual offerings of courses are held with closed-captioning available to all, and the captioning is also available in 30+ languages. If you require special accommodations or need assistance, please contact Gina Gass at [email protected]. Requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of necessary accommodations.
Cancellations: Cancellations are accepted minus an administrative fee of $25.00 up until two weeks prior to the offering. After that time, cancellations will not be accepted but the participant may join a different virtual event offered within 6 months of the original course offering without penalty. Participants must attend an event within the 6 months of the original course offering or forfeit their registration. Click here for full policy on cancellations.
Complaints: Feeding Fundamentals, LLC takes complaints seriously and we will work to resolve them. Please send us an email at [email protected] with any concerns, within 2 weeks of completion of the course. Click here for full policy on complaints.
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