Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care
Price: $750
Foundations for Best Practice in Lactation Care is a complete core program to begin practice in evidence-based chestfeeding and lactation care. This 50-hour course is essential education for any healthcare professional or individual who works with parents and their newborns, or as the beginning process for becoming a lactation consultant (IBCLC). This in-depth course enables participants to provide accurate, current and consistent information about bodyfeeding and lactation to help support new families in feeding their babies from birth through the process of weaning.
Upon completion, you will earn the designation as a Certified Lactation Educator (CLE). Click here to learn more about what being a CLE means. This designation also allows for you to apply for an Advanced Nursing status at most institutions.
Upon completion, you will earn the designation as a Certified Lactation Educator (CLE). Click here to learn more about what being a CLE means. This designation also allows for you to apply for an Advanced Nursing status at most institutions.
Details
- Students will have 12 months to complete the course - most finish in under 3 months.
- This course is 50 hours.
- Detailed Content Outline Topic:
Development and Nutrition, Physiology and Endocrinology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Techniques, Clinical Skills
Education Credits
- International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners, Provider Number: CLT108-4 - 50 L CERPs
- Instructional hours in topics on IBLCE Detailed Content Outline - 50 Hours
- California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number: CEP 14127 - 50 Hours (RNs Only)
- Certified Lactation Educator designation
Looking to certify to become an IBCLC?
This course is included in the IBCLC Certification Bundle. The IBCLC Certification Bundle includes all the required didactic education.
This course is a great starting point towards becoming an IBCLC by providing you the designation CLE. This allows you to work as a lactation educator and peer support counselor. Want to learn more about a CLE? Click here.
This course is a great starting point towards becoming an IBCLC by providing you the designation CLE. This allows you to work as a lactation educator and peer support counselor. Want to learn more about a CLE? Click here.
Recertification by CERPs
Detailed Content Outline Topic:
12 CERPS in Development and Nutrition
4 CERPS in Physiology and Endocrinology
10 CERPS in Pathology
5 CERPS in Pharmacology and Toxicology
7 CERPS in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
6 CERPS in Techniques
6 CERPS in Clinical Skills
12 CERPS in Development and Nutrition
4 CERPS in Physiology and Endocrinology
10 CERPS in Pathology
5 CERPS in Pharmacology and Toxicology
7 CERPS in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
6 CERPS in Techniques
6 CERPS in Clinical Skills
Learning Objectives (By lecture)
Talking to Pregnant Families about Feeding their Babies: Breastfeeding and Chestfeeding Promotion
- Identify national and international healthcare organisations that have included bodyfeeding as part of their strategic health plan
- Describe how the personalising of breastfeeding can interfere with effective communication with lactating persons about feeding their babies
- Discuss how control in healthcare can be a barrier to providing effective chestfeeding care
- Describe the difficulties of breast health promotion in a sexual breast culture Identify teaching points appropriate for prenatal classes and interactions with pregnant persons
- Discuss the importance of the healthcare provider's words and actions in influencing pregnant and lactating persons in feeding decisions
Prenatal Assessment for Lactation: What to Look for in the Physical Exam, Respect for Persons and their Bodies
- Discuss times when breastfeeding promotion may be contraindicated
- Describe the basic sequence of early breast/chest development
- Describe the expected breast/chest development that occurs during pregnancy
- Describe important things to look for in a prenatal breast/chest assessment
- Discuss how breast/chest surgeries may impact lactating potential
- List helpful prenatal interventions for nipples that may be challenging for chestfeeding
The Wonders of Human Milk: Why it Matters What We Feed Babies
- Describe the importance of species-specific mammal milks in the survival and health of the human infant
- Describe the differences in milk of "nesting" mammals and "carrying or following" mammals
- List differences in early milk and more mature human milk
- Discuss the variations found in the fat components of human milk
- List two protective proteins in human milk
- Discuss one reason for high lactose content in human milk
- Describe how the carbohydrate complex contributes to protecting the newborn from harmful pathogens
- List one recommended supplement for human milk fed infants in the first six months
Getting Families Started Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding: Evidence-Based Care
- Describe the predictable patterns exhibited by newborns when they are positioned on their birthing parent’s abdomen immediately following birth
- List the birthing routines that may negatively influence chestfeeding success
- Discuss the rationale of skin-to-skin care for parent and baby
- List the most common causes of hypoglycaemia in newborns
- Discuss the impact of narcotics and anaesthesia on parental and newborn behaviours
- Discuss hospital birth policies and procedures that support exclusive bodyfeeding
- Describe helpful techniques in providing skin-to-skin care for newborns in the operating room following Caesarean birth
Looking at Culture: The Impact on Infant Feeding and Those Who Support Families Through the Process
- Discuss the effects of a changing culture on chestfeeding outcomes
- Identify the reasons for the shift from a breastfeeding culture to a bottle feeding culture
- Discuss how control from the health system changed feeding and parenting practices
- Discuss how assumptions about one’s culture can influence the care of young persons
- Discuss things that individuals can do to reduce inequities in healthcare access
Human Milk and the Development of the Immune System: Consequences of Formula Feeding
- Discuss why the human infant is protected against many pathogens/germs immediately after birth
- Describe how human milk helps in the development of the infant’s immune system
- Consider the impact of antibiotics and birth method on the infant microbiome
- Discuss the consequences of formula company marketing
- List possible risks to babies who are fed artificial milks
- List possible health risks to post-birth persons who don’t bodyfeed
Positioning Babies for Feedings: Evidence or Opinion?
- Discuss the negative effects of breastfeeding dogma when helping parents feed their babies
- Describe some helpful ways to achieve effective positioning and latch
- Describe ways to help a parent feed multiple babies
- Observe key points when assessing positioning and latch
- Identify the hallmarks of early milk transfer and effective chestfeeding
- Perform a LATCH score
Normal Infant Feeding Patterns and Growth and Development: The First 3 Months
- Discuss expected newborn behaviours in the first 24 hours of life
- Identify early feeding cues in term infants
- Help coordinate successful bodyfeeding in the first hours and months of life
- Discuss how research numbers about breastfeeding can cause confusion when applied to an individual parent-baby dyads
- Create effective scripts when families ask specific questions about early feeds
- Identify developmental milestones for infants 0-3 months old
- List activities that can help to soothe a crying infant
- Discuss parenting difficulties that arise from the conflict between infant and pregnant and lactating persons biology and the messages of modern culture
The Anatomy & Hormones of Milk Production: The Influence of Early Care
- Identify the internal anatomy that is the mammary gland
- Describe the primary effects of prolactin in pregnancy and postpartum milk production
- Describe the primary effects of oxytocin on XX persons throughout their lifetime
- Describe how our care influences milk production
- Discuss the theory of milk storage capacity
- Discuss the implications when milk is not regularly removed from the breast/chest
Challenging Feedings: Good Problem Solving
- Explain when it may be appropriate to provide “hands-on” help with bodyfeeding
- List things to do when a baby is sleepy or disorganised at the breast/chest
- List strategies for helping a parent chestfeed when they have inverted nipples
- Discuss the importance of infant oral anatomy on breastfeeding success
- Discuss why a cleft lip alone creates fewer bodyfeeding difficulties than a cleft palate
- Describe the role of the cheeks in normal suck
- Describe the importance of the tongue in breastfeeding
- Identify the hallmarks of a problematic tongue-tie
Tools of the Trade
- Discuss the appropriate use of breast pumps
- Provide several tips for the use of various supplemental tube devices at the chest/breast
- Describe some positive and negative results of cup feedings for supplementing the bodyfed infants
- Describe some helpful tips when using a nipple shield
- Discuss the rationale of restricting pacifier use in the early weeks of lactation
Early Clinical Challenges: Physiologic Pain and Beyond
- List the most common causes of early nipple pain
- Describe some common markers of poor latch when observing a feeding
- Develop a care plan to help a parent with nipple pain
- Discuss ways to keep persons chestfeeding when they want to give up
Caring for the Infant with Hyperbilirubinaemia: What Role Does Lactation Play?
- Discuss some of the negative consequences when a baby has hyperbilirubinaemia
- List some possible common and uncommon causes of hyperbilirubinaemia
- Provide helpful feeding information when families have a baby who requires phototherapy
- Explain how ineffective milk transfer can lead to hyperbilirubinaemia
Lactating Persons Who Return to Work or are Separated from their Babies: Challenges and Solutions
- Describe some of the challenges of bodyfeeding and working outside the home
- List some helpful tips for managing chestfeeding when persons work outside the home
- Discuss the importance of legislation in providing support for working breastfeeding/chestfeeding persons
- Discuss the collection and storage of human milk
Common Questions about Medications/Drugs During Lactation
- Identify helpful resources for parents and professionals to find information on medications for bodyfeeding persons
- Discuss basic considerations when evaluating the use of medications for chestfeeding parents
- Identify helpful information when discussing cold medications and breastfeeding
- Identify helpful information when discussing radiopaque dyes and breastfeeding
- Identify helpful information when discussing antidepressants and bodyfeeding
- Identify helpful information when discussing birth control and chestfeeding
- Identify helpful information when discussing addictive drugs and breastfeeding
Growth & Development: Babies 3-6 Months Old
- Identify developmental milestones for infants three to six months of age
- List developmental milestones in this age that are precursors to readiness for starting solids
- List challenges of breastfeeding/chestfeeding the three to six-month-old baby
Safe Sleep: The Conflict Between Biology and Culture
- List the cultural messages about infant sleep that make parenting more complicated and difficult
- Discuss the research that has been used to support current recommendations on infant sleep
- Evaluate the current American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for infant sleep
- List the components of safe sleep for newborns
Working Our Way Through the Mastitis Spectrum: Non-infectious, Chronic inflammation, Infection
- Describe the causes of pathologic engorgement
- Recommend helpful ways to relieve breast/chest engorgement
- List the most common causes of inflammatory mastitis
- Describe the symptoms and treatment of inflammatory mastitis
- Discuss the most likely causes and treatment of infectious mastitis
- Discuss possible approaches to breast/chest phlegmon, abscess, and galactocele
- Describe the most likely reasons a parent or infant might have a candida infection
Relationships with a Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding Persons: Families, Partners, Infant Feedings, Postpartum Adaptation
- Discuss the potential impact of breastfeeding/chestfeeding on family relationships
- Discuss the important role of partners in caring for lactating parents and babies
- Provide some helpful information to assist families in their new postpartum relationship
- Identify some early symptoms of postpartum depression/anxiety
- Describe the importance of finding a social community for postpartum persons
Insufficient Milk Volumes & Slow Gaining Infants: Which Comes First? Intake or Supply?
- List the early signals that should alert parents to potential bodyfeeding problems
- List the most likely causes of poor milk production in the first weeks
- Discuss the normal changes in milk volumes over the first year
- Discuss the expected daily weight gain for an exclusively human milk fed infant in the first three months
- Develop a feeding plan for an infant who is not gaining adequate weight
- Discuss counselling strategies when helping a new parent who is not making adequate milk
Caring For Babies Who are Born Early: Feeding the Preterm, Very Preterm Infant
- Discuss the immaturity of all human infants
- Discuss how human milk and skin-to-skin care can specifically help the preterm infant
- List ways to maximise milk volumes in parents of preterm babies
- Discuss the principles of “Hands-on Pumping”
- List expectations of feeding progression for very preterm infants
- List two reasons for adding fortifiers to human milk
- Discuss the use of donor milk in the NICU
- Discuss the advantages of using test weights to determine lactating progress
- Design a possible feeding plan for families of preterm infant
Late Preterm (34-37 weeks) and Early Term (37-38 weeks) Infant: Now Official “Early Term” Somewhere Between Term and Late Preterm Infants
- Define what is meant by "late preterm"
- Discuss risks associated with late preterm births
- Describe a plan for caring for late preterm infants
- Describe ways to enhance bodyfeeding success for the parent of a late preterm infant
Common Questions about Nutrition During Lactation
- List common misconceptions about nutrition for postpartum human milk fed families
- Provide helpful information on vitamin and mineral supplements for lactating persons
- Discuss why over-consumption of water may reduce milk production
- List three of the most common allergens
- List appropriate times to refer bodyfeeding parents to a registered dietitian
Lactation Six Months & Beyond: To the Biological Ending
- Identify typical developmental milestones of infants beyond the first six months
- Provide evidence-based information to families about introducing solid foods to their child
- Discuss the challenges persons face when they bodyfeeding past the cultural norm
- Provide helpful information to persons who breastfeed through a pregnancy
- Discuss the importance of ongoing protection and support for all parents who continue chestfeeding beyond the early months
It will be an asset to have this knowledge know when working with patient populations in the hospital. Should be a requirement for all postpartum nurses and doctors who take care of this population
This is probably my 3rd time in my life taking this course. I learn something new every time because they continually update the content.
As a registered nurse who has already been providing lactation support for families and their newborns in the outpatient setting for almost 2 years, I was amazed by how much I learned in this course! Through all the case studies and lectures with images/videos, I have developed a greater sense of confidence to better help the families and newborns in my practice. I feel inspired to continue learning more for myself, but also to help better support those that come into my care. Thank you to Evergreen Perinatal Education for sharing your knowledge with me!
Meet the Faculty
Ginna Wall,
RN, MN, IBCLC
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CLINICAL DIRECTOR
Learn more about Ginna here.
Christine Muenz,
BA, MA, CLE
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SENIOR LECTURER
Learn more about Christine here.
Molly MacGuffie
RN, IBCLC
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SENIOR LECTURER
Learn more about Molly here.
Wendy Davies-Dean
DVM, CLE
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LECTURER
Learn more about Wendy here.
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