Optimizing Breastfeeding Support During the First Few Weeks Postpartum
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Optimizing BF Support During the First Few Weeks Postpartum
Cost
Members: $9 (You must be logged in to receive member pricing)
Non-Members: $10
Includes access to the eCourse for 1 year
Overview
This 1-hour course reviews optimal routine management of breastfeeding during the first week postpartum, after hospital discharge. Common maternal/infant problems are also reviewed including delay in lactation, latch concerns, sleep issues, and maternal peripartum mood disorder.
Objectives
- Develop the skills to counsel families on adequate intake during the first week postpartum.
- Describe management of engorgement.
- Identify 3 common breastfeeding problems during the first week postpartum.
- Explain optimal frequency of visits during the first few months postpartum.
- Describe how to support a mother and infant when there is a delay in lactation.
- Explain 2 risks of nipple shield use.
- Identify signs of maternal peripartum mood disorder
Topic Outline
- Recommendations on timing for outpatient follow-up after hospital discharge
- Signs of adequate intake during the first week postpartum
- Asymmetric latch and strategies to optimize effective feeding at the breast
- Management of maternal breast engorgement
- Delay in lactation- identification and management
- Optional methods of supplementation for the breastfed infant
- Unilateral breast refusal
- Nipple shield use
- Pacifier use
- Common infant problems- frequent feeding, sleepiness, night time awakefulness
- Maternal peripartum mood disorders
Accreditation
CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed Optimizing Breastfeeding Support During the First Few Weeks Postpartum and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.0 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 02/14/2023 to 02/13/2024. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CERPs: This recorded course has been allocated 1 (L) Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) by IBLCE. CERPs approval # CLT117-04.
IABLE has been accepted by International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) as a CERP Provider for the listed Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) programme. Determination of CERPs eligibility or CERPs Provider status does not imply IBLCE®’s endorsement or assessment of education quality. INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAMINERS®, IBLCE®, INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT®, and IBCLC® are registered marks of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.
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/
Conflicts of Interest
None
Speaker BIO
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 is an associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.
She co-hosts and produces a breastfeeding medicine podcast series, called The Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast, available free on i-tunes.
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. She publishes a weekly Clinical Question of the Week and the free LactFacts app, available on android and apple devices.