Breastfeeding and Lactation Support: Improve Parent Training to Facilitate the Transition from NICU to Home
Designed for healthcare professionals like nurses, lactation consultants, and therapists working with premature and medically complex infants, this course provides an in-depth overview of breastfeeding challenges in the NICU.
Participants will gain insight into parent education and training, facilitating the transition from NICU to home, and understanding feeding complexities associated with conditions such as premature birth, low birth weight, and respiratory support. The course also covers key feeding techniques, including pace-bottle feeding, tongue movement for milk transfer, and positioning strategies to ensure effective breastfeeding outcomes.
Overview
Level: Introductory
CEUs: 0.1 ASHA CEUs
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes
Price: $30.00 USD
Learning Outcomes
- Identify at least 2 cues to indicate infant is ready to attempt oral feeding.
- Identify the key points to ensure infant alignment to the breast for feeding.
- Describe the importance of paced bottle feeding, milk flow and slow flow nipples.
- Describe the importance of tongue movement for milk transfer.
- Verbalize the importance of education and support for NICU parents to be prepared for transition to home.
Disclosures
Financial Disclosure: Presenter for The Pediatric Source and receives a fee for content creation and royalty payments.
Nonfinancial- none to disclose.
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About the Speaker
I'm Darla Staten. I'm a wife, mom, nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). My husband and I have been married for over 11 years, have two amazing daughters and a cuddly pug. I have a huge passion for NICU breastfeeding. I love to support families and infants to meet their feeding goals. I have been working with moms and babies for 14 years. I'm so excited to be a part of The Pediatric Source and can't wait to share information and gain more knowledge from the amazing team around me.
Since I started working in the NICU our percentage of infants being discharged receiving maternal milk at discharge increased to the highest it has ever been! I even have mothers who have called to follow up that they are still breastfeeding. It's amazing when a former 28 week infant is still breastfeeding at 2 years!
