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This eCourse is one session from our Core Content of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine course. The Core Content of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Course is comprised of 30 individual sessions that are designed to comprehensively prepare physicians and other providers (physician assistants, nurse practitioners, midwives) to provide evidence-based anticipatory guidance and management of typical breastfeeding and lactation problems seen in primary care.
Overview:
This course, for physicians and other healthcare providers, covers supporting lactating parents upon return to work or school.
Objectives:
- Identify 3 common challenges in maintaining lactation when back to work
- Understand principles of longitudinal milk production when separated from infant
- Explain how creating and using a large freezer stash can undermine feeding goals
Topic Outline
- Policies and legislation regarding the rights of lactating parents
- Common challenges encountered when back to work or school
- Maintain longitudinal milk production
- Risks of overproduction
- Anticipatory guidance
- Storage and handling of expressed milk
- Feeding of expressed milk
Accreditation
CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed Back to Work/School Medicine and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.00 Live AAFP Prescribed credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CERPS: This course has been allocated 1(L) CERPs recognized by IBLCE. Long Term Provider #117-04.
Nursing Credits: All state boards for 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/
Speaker Biography
Dr. Laurie Jones is a general pediatrician who trained in Augusta, GA for medical school and completed pediatric residency in Birmingham, AL in 2002. She moved to Arizona in 2003 and practiced inpatient and outpatient general pediatrics in an academic setting at St. Joseph’s Hospital until she joined Agave Pediatrics in 2018. She served in many educational roles in the pediatric residency program, and she was the medical director of the newborn nursery at St. Joe’s for seven years. Dr. Jones has had a special interest in breastfeeding dyads since 2009 and has been a board-certified lactation consultant since 2010. She was awarded the designation of Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (FABM) in 2018. Dr. Jones is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona -Phoenix School of Medicine and teaches second and fourth year medical students. She is the founder of Dr. MILK which is a 35,000+ person international support network for physician parents that are breastfeeding, and she is a presenter and speaker for the non-profit IABLE organization that trains physicians in competency-based knowledge and care of lactating parents and their children. She has two school-aged children and enjoys hiking and photography in her free time.
Conflicts of Interest
None