• Description

Cost

$150
Includes access to the eCourse for 1 year and a copy of the OBC reference booklet.

Overview

The IABLE Outpatient Breastfeeding Champion Course is a basic, clinically-focused course for any person who is a medical or community breastfeeding supporter. The course provides instruction on how to answer the most common breastfeeding questions that a lactating parent and their family have throughout the course of lactation, into toddlerhood and beyond. The recordings in this course were presented via webinar in June 2025 for a West Virginia audience.

A wide variety of community breastfeeding supporters have found this course rewarding and relevant to their work, including office nurses, medical assistants, nutritionists, public health nurses, home visitors, doulas, midwives, peer counselors, social workers, health professional students (nursing, medicine, pharmacy), medical interpreters, and medical providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants).

Learning Outcome

Attendees will gain knowledge and confidence in evidence-based care for common lactation questions and concerns.

Objectives

• Identify the nutritional and immunologic properties of breastfeeding and the risks of artificial milk.
• Discuss care plans for common breastfeeding problems, such as sore nipples, poor weight gain, and latch difficulties.
• Use in-person and telephone breastfeeding triage tools that aid in increasing positive breastfeeding outcomes.

Topic Outline

Session 1:

• Special Properties of Human Milk
• The Entero-Mammary Pathway
• Risks of Not Breastfeeding
• Contraindications to Breastfeeding
• Healthy People 2030 Breastfeeding Objectives
• Breastfeeding Demographics
• Barriers to Breastfeeding
• Prenatal Counseling
• Communication and Counseling the Breastfeeding Mother

Session 2:

• Anatomy and Physiology
• Positioning for Breastfeeding
• Infant Latch
• Defining a Feeding
• Feeding Frequency and Duration
• Infant and Maternal Signs of Adequate Milk Intake

Session 3:

• Breastfeeding in the Immediate Postpartum Period
• Lactogenesis II
• Engorgement
• Supporting Dyads during the First Week Postpartum
• Maternal Infant Separation
• The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
• The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
• Hospital Discharge & Follow Up

Session 4:

• Sore Nipples- The Most Common Causes
• Proper Positioning and Latch to Prevent and Resolve Sore Nipples
• Managing Nipple Sores
• Breast Swelling and Engorgement
• Acute Mastitis
• Infectious Causes of Breast/Nipple Pain
• Non-Infectious Causes of Breast/Nipple Pain
• Infant Biting
• Pump Trauma
• Nipple Piercing

Session 5:

• The Baby Who is Not Gaining Well
• Pre/Post Feed Weights
• Maternal Low Milk Production
• Supplementing the Breastfed Baby
• Prematurity
• Night Time Feedings

Session 6:

• The Non-Latching Baby
• Infant-Led Latch
• The Baby who Prefers One Side
• Nipple Shields
• Pacifiers and Nursing Infants
• Infant Fussiness at the Breast
• Complementary Feeding
• Parental Diet and Breastfeeding
• Weaning
• Induced Lactation and Re-lactation

Session 7:

• Milk Expression
• Breast Pumps
• Fitting Breast Shields
• Operating and Cleaning a Breast Pump
• Storage of Expressed Breastmilk
• Use of Expressed Breastmilk
• Returning to Work and Breastfeeding

Session 8:

• Maternal Medications and Breastfeeding
• Health Equity and Breastfeeding
• Role-Playing Exercises

Accreditation

CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed The Outpatient Breastfeeding Champion Course – Enduring, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This course is approved for 14.5 Prescribed CME credits.

Nursing Contact Hours: CMEs from the AAFP can be used for nursing credits. All state boards of nursing licensure approve of educational offerings that are approved by the American Nursing Credentialling Center (ANCC). According to ANCC Certification, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal. https://www.nursingworld.org/certification/faqs/

CERPs: According to the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) Individual CERPs Guide for Recertification, Section IIIA, education that has been awarded educational credit by another board or organization may be counted as CERPs. All IABLE courses both live and enduring are awarded continuing education credits (CMEs) from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Each CME credit can be counted as one CERP.  There is no limit to the number of CMEs that can be counted as CERPs.

Conflicts of Interest

None

Speakers

Anne Eglash MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to family medicine, she has been practicing breastfeeding medicine since 1994.

Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine, has been the lead author on several Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine protocols, and has been an associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.

Dr. Eglash is founder and president of The Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of breastfeeding-knowledgeable medical systems and communities.

Kathy Leeper MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM, is board certified in Pediatrics. She cofounded a nonprofit breastfeeding center called MilkWorks and has been practicing breastfeeding medicine exclusively at MilkWorks since 2001. She is the Vice President of the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE) and is the inaugural secretary for the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.

Conflicts of Interest

None

IBLCE Category Domains:

Session 1 I. Development and Nutrition 0.5; V. Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology 0.5; VII. Clinical Skills 1.0
Session 2 I. Development and Nutrition 0.5; II. Physiology and Endocrinology 0.5; VI. Techniques 0.75
Session 3 II. Physiology and Endocrinology 0.5; VI. Techniques 0.75; VII. Clinical Skills 0.5
Session 4 III. Pathology 1.75
Session 5 I. Development and Nutrition 1.25; VI. Techniques 0.5; VII. Clinical Skills 0.75
Session 6 I. Development and Nutrition 0.25; V. Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology 0.5; VI. Techniques 0.25; VII. Clinical Skills 0.5
Session 7 V. Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology 0.25; VI. Techniques 0.75; VII. Clinical Skills 0.75
Session 8 IV. Pharmacology and Toxicology 1.0; VII Clinical Skills 0.5