Breastfeeding: New Strategies for Improved Outcomes

Course Description:
If you support breastfeeding, then you recognize the need to improve breastfeeding outcomes. Join Pamela K. Murphy as she provides strategies to address the current challenges associated with the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This comprehensive day will include the latest information on:

* Vitamin D and breastmilk
* Incorporating breastfeeding into prenatal care
* Impact of C-sections, epidurals, pitocin, misoprostol and magnesium on breastfeeding outcomes
* Engorgement, over-supply, clogged ducts and mastitis

Drawing on experience gained from her extensive clinical breastfeeding practice, Pamela is delighted to share her knowledge and expertise to assist you in developing strategies that can lead to better breastfeeding success. Pamela will enhance your knowledge of breastfeeding by providing you with the latest evidence-based practice findings to guide your clinical decisions. Attendees appreciate the opportunity to learn through hands-on demonstrations and value the passion that Pamela conveys throughout this one-day educational event. Make plans to attend today!
Learner Objectives:
At the completion of this program, you will be able to:

1. Explain the latest research on the benefits of breastmilk for mother and infant.
2. Examine strategies to promote breastfeeding prenatally & postnatally.
3. Identify methods to facilitate proper latch.
4. Plan interventions to facilitate breastfeeding for the woman who receives an epidural.
5. Discuss breastfeeding management of the late preterm infant.
6. List strategies to prevent and treat sore nipples.
7. Utilize interventions to prevent and treat low milk supply.
8. Summarize interventions to assist working mothers to continue to provide breastmilk to their infants.

Pamela K. Murphy is a lactation consultant in an advanced practice lactation service model at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Medical Center and Children's Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. She has worked with birthing and breastfeeding families for more than ten years. In her current lactation practice, she attends to women and their healthy, high-risk or premature newborns. She also works with mothers in the outpatient setting who have issues such as: undersupply, nipple candida and ineffective latch. Her research areas include: accurate test weighing techniques, and vitamin D insufficiency correlations with mental health. Her published works have appeared in Breastfeeding Medicine and the Journal of Nurse Midwifery & Women's Health.

Pamela is involved in breastfeeding education for nurses, nursing and medical students, residents and WIC peer counselors. She recently collaborated with her colleagues to develop a training program focused on breastfeeding basics and initiating early pumping to provide colostrum to high-risk and preterm infants. Her commitment to breastfeeding is demonstrated by her certification as an internationally board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and the development of www.breastfeedingconferences.com; a free search engine for lactation consultants and nurses to post and locate breastfeeding continuing education opportunities.