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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 induction of lactation and re-lactation.
Objectives
- List major topics to discuss when counseling an individual who desires induced lactation
- Describe typical protocols for breast development
- Explain how to counsel on establishing milk production after breast preparation
- Identify key aspects of dyad support after the infant is born
Topic Outline
- Pre-induction counselling and anticipatory guidance
- Timeline for inducing lactation
- Review of role of hormones in breast development during pregnancy
- Medications used to induce lactation
- Medical reasons to not use estrogen containing medications for lactation induction
- Milk expression during lactation induction
- Anticipatory guidance after baby is delivered
- Supplementation need assessment and management
- Lactation induction for a transgender female
- Lactation induction for a transgender male
Accreditation
CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed Induction of Lactation 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
Anne Eglash MD, 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 practicing family medicine, she has been a board-certified lactation consultant 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 was an associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.
She co-hosts and produces a breastfeeding medicine podcast series, called The Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast. She is the founder and president of the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education.
Conflicts of Interest
None