Events

This five-day program is designed for individuals who are already credentialed as an IBCLC or have attended a comprehensive professional breastfeeding education program within the past 3-5 years. These individuals should have a strong background in working clinically with breastfeeding families. A teaching background is also desireable.
For more information, contact Laura Pearson, RN, PHN or Leslie Anderson, RN at Golden Start Breastfeeding Initiative. 218-736-8625 or goldinit@lrhc.org

This five-day program is designed for individuals who are already credentialed as an IBCLC or have attended a comprehensive professional breastfeeding education program within the past 3-5 years. These individuals should have a strong background in working clinically with breastfeeding families. A teaching background is also desireable.
For more information, contact Laura Pearson, RN, PHN or Leslie Anderson, RN at Golden Start Breastfeeding Initiative. 218-736-8625 or goldinit@lrhc.org

This five-day program is designed for individuals who are already credentialed as an IBCLC or have attended a comprehensive professional breastfeeding education program within the past 3-5 years. These individuals should have a strong background in working clinically with breastfeeding families. A teaching background is also desireable.
For more information, contact Laura Pearson, RN, PHN or Leslie Anderson, RN at Golden Start Breastfeeding Initiative. 218-736-8625 or goldinit@lrhc.org

This five-day program is designed for individuals who are already credentialed as an IBCLC or have attended a comprehensive professional breastfeeding education program within the past 3-5 years. These individuals should have a strong background in working clinically with breastfeeding families. A teaching background is also desireable.
For more information, contact Laura Pearson, RN, PHN or Leslie Anderson, RN at Golden Start Breastfeeding Initiative. 218-736-8625 or goldinit@lrhc.org

9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. • Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
Kathryn Weil Center for Education
Medical Arts Building • 415 N. 26th St., Suite 400 • Lafayette

This event is sponsored by the Greater Lafayette Breast Feeding Coalition and St. Elizabeth Regional Health.
Visit www.ste.org/kwce for more information.
Symposium schedule
9 – 9:30 a.m.: Registration and welcome
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.: “The Control and Production of Human Milk”
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.: Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.: “Using Medications in Breastfeeding Mothers”
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch on your own

This two-day conference features Vergie Hughes, RN, MS, IBCLC, FILCA who will speak on the following topics:
1. Identifying breasts and nipples that will need intervention
2. Demonstrating and assisting mothers in correct positioning
3. Assisting with latch-on techniques
4. Assessing stages of readiness to feed
5. Assessing milk transfer from mother to baby

This five-day program is designed for individuals who are already credentialed as an IBCLC or have attended a comprehensive professional breastfeeding education program within the past 3-5 years. These individuals should have a strong background in working clinically with breastfeeding families. A teaching background is also desireable.
For more information, contact Laura Pearson, RN, PHN or Leslie Anderson, RN at Golden Start Breastfeeding Initiative. 218-736-8625 or goldinit@lrhc.org

This two-day conference features Vergie Hughes, RN, MS, IBCLC, FILCA who will speak on the following topics:
1. Identifying breasts and nipples that will need intervention
2. Demonstrating and assisting mothers in correct positioning
3. Assisting with latch-on techniques
4. Assessing stages of readiness to feed
5. Assessing milk transfer from mother to baby

Experience the land of natural wonder.
Visit 4 Ports. Unpack Once.
A roundtrip cruise from Seattle, Washington August 20, 2010 to August 27, 2010
Juneau, Alaska Skagway, Alaska Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska Victoria, British Columbia
Cruising the Inside Passage
Outside Cabins including meals from $700 per person, double occupancy (plus port fees and taxes—subject to availability! Best prices if booked by March 20, 2010)
HEALTHY CHILDREN PROJECT’S Center for Breastfeeding

FACULTY

Speaker: Cheryl Scott, PhD, RN, IBCLC, RLC

Dr. Jack Newman will speak about The First Hour, Controversies in Breastfeeding, When the Baby Refuses the Breast & Just One Bottle.

Speaker: Cheryl Scott, PhD, RN, IBCLC, RLC

Speaker: Cheryl Scott, PhD, RN, IBCLC, RLC

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

Hosted by Saskatoon Health Region Speech-Language Pathology and Saskatoon Breastfeeding Center
Speakers: Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC Lisa Sandora, MA, CCP-SLP, IBCLC
The targeted audience for this conference includes speech-language pathologists, lactation consultants, and breastfeeding practitioners. This is an advanced practice conference; material and cases presented will be complex.
Topics will include: • Oral anatomy and physiology • Assessing suck/swallow/breathe • Helping infants suck correctly • Posterior tongue tie • Treatment options and case studies

Diana West, author of Making More Milk, will be speaking at the next conference hosted by the Western PA Lactation Consultant Association. Diana is a frequent speaker at international conferences and is recognized as an expert on this subject.

The date for this conference is Friday, September 10, 2010, at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. CERPs and CEUs are being applied for. The cost will be $75 for members and $100 for non-members.

Registration and more details about this conference will be available at our website, http://www.wplca.net

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

Hosted by Saskatoon Health Region Speech-Language Pathology and Saskatoon Breastfeeding Center
Speakers: Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC Lisa Sandora, MA, CCP-SLP, IBCLC
The targeted audience for this conference includes speech-language pathologists, lactation consultants, and breastfeeding practitioners. This is an advanced practice conference; material and cases presented will be complex.
Topics will include: • Oral anatomy and physiology • Assessing suck/swallow/breathe • Helping infants suck correctly • Posterior tongue tie • Treatment options and case studies

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

Comprehensive breastfeeding management training

Practical skills that will make you more effective in your job

Time-saving hospital strategies that make breastfeeding a success

Strategies and tips for special circumstances - premies, Down Syndrome,
newborns affected by medications, and more

How to talk to mothers in a way that encourages them to choose breastfeeding

Public Health/WIC strategies that work to increase breastfeeding success

Confidence building knowledge and skills

This in-depth course enables participants to provide
accurate, current and consistent information about
breastfeeding and lactation and to support new families in
feeding their babies from birth through the process of
weaning. Each participant will be given the knowledge to
work with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity
of care for the breastfeeding mother and her infant(s). In
addition, each participant will:
· practice taking multiple choice exams/quizzes in
lactation
· present and learn from written projects and oral case
studies

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

This in-depth course enables participants to provide
accurate, current and consistent information about
breastfeeding and lactation and to support new families in
feeding their babies from birth through the process of
weaning. Each participant will be given the knowledge to
work with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity
of care for the breastfeeding mother and her infant(s). In
addition, each participant will:
· practice taking multiple choice exams/quizzes in
lactation
· present and learn from written projects and oral case
studies

Course Dates and Times: Septermber 8,9,10th and 15,16 and 17th, 2010 from 8:30-5:30 each day

Instructor: Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC
Email: dixie.whetsell@pcc.edu
www.pcc.edu/lactation

This in-depth course enables participants to provide
accurate, current and consistent information about
breastfeeding and lactation and to support new families in
feeding their babies from birth through the process of
weaning. Each participant will be given the knowledge to
work with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity
of care for the breastfeeding mother and her infant(s). In
addition, each participant will:
· practice taking multiple choice exams/quizzes in
lactation
· present and learn from written projects and oral case
studies