Breastfeeding
Course #33353 - $90 -
- Participation Instructions
- Review the course material online or in print.
- Complete the course evaluation.
- Review your Transcript to view and print your Certificate of Completion. Your date of completion will be the date (Pacific Time) the course was electronically submitted for credit, with no exceptions. Partial credit is not available.
This course is designed for those in the medical profession with interests in perinatal and maternal-child health. It will assist the participant in supporting, protecting, and promoting breastfeeding for optimal infant growth and development. The historical, social, emotional, and political factors involved in breastfeeding will be reviewed. The hazards of feeding artificial baby milk, review of anatomy, physiology, and the uniqueness of human milk will be addressed within the course. Antepartum educational needs, antepartum assessment for lactational ability, and hospital routines that support lactation are considered. The effects of labor and delivery practices on the breastfeeding relationship are covered in detail. Special circumstances, nursing the premature infant, jaundice, and the use of breastfeeding devices will be explained.
- INTRODUCTION
- THE HISTORY OF INFANT FEEDING
- A PARADIGM SHIFT IN SUPPORT OF BREASTFEEDING
- ARTIFICIAL BABY MILK
- DECIDING TO BREASTFEED
- BREAST MILK
- BREAST ANATOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
- ANTEPARTUM EDUCATION
- ANTEPARTUM LACTATION ASSESSMENT
- HOSPITAL ROUTINES THAT SUPPORT LACTATION
- THE LATCH-ON PROCESS
- COMPLICATIONS
- THE PREMATURE INFANT
- BREASTFEEDING DEVICES
- BREASTFEEDING: THE EARLY MONTHS
- SUPPORT FOR THE BREASTFEEDING COUPLE
- CASE STUDIES
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- CONCLUSION
- RESOURCES
- GLOSSARY
- Works Cited
- Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations Citations
This course is designed for all nurses, especially those working in obstetrics, NICU, and pediatrics.
The purpose of this course is to provide the nurse with an in depth understanding of breastfeeding, including an intensive review of anatomy, physiology, emotional and social factors, and a review of problem solving protocols.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Outline the history of infant feeding and breastfeeding.
- Discuss the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk and other signs of the paradigm shift in favor of breastfeeding.
- Review components of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
- List the risk and disadvantages associated with artificial baby milk (ABM).
- Describe the components and types of breast milk.
- Discuss the anatomy and development of the breast and the physiology of breast milk production.
- Identify key points of antepartum education and lactation assessments.
- Outline the role of the doula.
- Review various hospital routines that affect breastfeeding, including the use of labor medications and the neonatal assessment.
- Describe the latch-on process.
- List potential maternal complications that may interfere with breastfeeding.
- List potential infant complications that may make breastfeeding difficult or impossible.
- Compare and contrast various devices available for the breastfeeding mother.
- Discuss issues that may arise during the early weeks and months of breastfeeding.
- Identify support available for the breastfeeding couple.
Marie Davis, RN, IBCLC, received her lactation consultant certificate from the University of California in Los Angeles. She began her private practice in 1986. In addition, she was one of the lactation consultants for Kaiser Permanente in Riverside, California for 10 years. Mrs. Davis is also a clinical instructor for the Lactation Consultant Training Program, UCLA Extension. Mrs. Davis is the author of The Lactation Consultant's Clinical Practice Manual and a contributing author to Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice. She has mentored many student lactation consultants. Mrs. Davis is a member of the International Lactation Consultant's Association and is listed in Who's Who in American Nursing and Who's Who Among Young American Professionals. She makes her home in southern California.
Contributing faculty, Marie Davis, RN, IBCLC, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
Jane C. Norman, RN, MSN, CNE, PhD
The division planner has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
Sarah Campbell
The Director of Development and Academic Affairs has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
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