Description
Objectives:
1. Identify evidence-based ways to manage common early medical concerns (low glucose, jaundice, losing too much weight)
2. Review normal expectations, and discuss common myths, social media trends and current practices
3. Discuss management of supplementation and common interventions to better support lactation (including pumping, alternative feeding methods, nipple shields)
4. Discuss common challenges including tongue tie, mastitis, engorgement
5. Discuss harm reduction strategies, medications, NICU admission, maternal illness in relation to lactation management
Description:
Breastfeeding is a learning experience for mother and baby. It’s a natural activity, but it takes practice, which requires time and patience. It’s normal for women to feel many anxieties around breastfeeding, at all stages and experience levels. It’s also normal for the nurse assisting the mother to experience anxiety as to whether her advice and assistance will help the mother be successful at breastfeeding. That’s why we’ve devised this special two-part webinar on breastfeeding with expert lactation consultant Angela Grant Buechner BA, BScN, RN, IBCLC. Angela will help you navigate breastfeeding issues with your new and experienced moms as problems can arise at any stage.
In the first webinar, Angela will cover Part A: The Basics and Early Support, where she’ll demonstrate effective teaching and counselling strategies to improve breastfeeding/chestfeeding outcomes; discuss the practical skills to improve position, latch, effective milk transfer and hand expression; ways to promote, protect and support lactation to assist families to reach their personal feeding goals; discuss normal newborn expectations regarding feeding, review relevant newborn physiology and more. In the second webinar, Part B: Challenges and Special Considerations. Angela will Identify evidence-based ways to manage common early medical concerns, like low glucose, jaundice, losing too much weight; discuss management of supplementation and common interventions to better support lactation, including pumping, alternative feeding methods, and nipple shields; discuss common challenges including tongue tie, mastitis and engorgement; discuss harm reduction strategies, medications, NICU admission, maternal illness in relation to lactation management; and discuss common myths, social media trends and current practices;
These sessions will be jam-packed with great strategies to help you help your nursing moms, and will be great for new and experienced nurses working in community, in-patient or outpatient perinatal settings.
Who Should Attend?
• Obstetrical Nurses; L&D, Midwives, Ante and Postpartum;
• Neonatal Nurses: Level 1, 2, & 3 Nursery Staff; Neonatal Nurse Practitioners
• Childbirth, Obstetrical and Neonatal Educators; Public Health Nurses
• Rural Acute Care Nurses; Doulas
• Nurses planning a career in Lactation Consulting; Selected Fetal Assessment Nurses
• Selected Women’s Health Practitioners; Selected Gyne & Sexual Health Nurses
Angela Grant Buechner BA, BScN, RN, IBCLC
Angela Grant Buechner (she/her) is a Registered Nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Doula and Educator. She has worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at a major Toronto teaching hospital as a nurse for over 20 years, has worked as a Childbirth Educator for Peel Public Health, and since 2009 has worked as an Lactation Consultant in both the NICU and private practice.
Angela is a published author of a textbook chapter on Breastfeeding Challenges in the NICU, and scholarly articles about Lactation. She is the former President of the Canadian Lactation Consultant Association, is a Breastfeeding Educator for Health Care Professionals at Mount Sinai Hospital, and has presented at the International Lactation Consultants Association Conference.
She is the mother of three exclusively breastfed children and she knows the benefits and rewards of breastfeeding/chestfeeding, but also understands that there are often challenges to overcome. As a Lactation Consultant, she understands the importance of providing
non-judgmental, timely and practical support to help patient reach their feeding goals. Her team at Nutmeg Consulting provides in-person Birth & Postpartum support and in-person and virtual Lactation support to clients across Canada and internationally.
