Conference Add-on Lecture Packs

Expand your conference experience with any of these focused educational series! In addition to the main conference, we are offering the option to extend your conference experience with 3 highly informative add-on lecture packages.

Essential Communication Skills for Lactation Professionals Lecture Pack

Communication skills are of critical importance in health care, and they are called "skills" for a reason. Communication techniques can be learned and practiced to help improve your ability to communicate effectively with both clients and colleagues. This package has been put together with the new IBLCE requirements for communication skills in mind, and provides focused education on communication skills for lactation and other healthcare professionals.

• We're Human, Too: Hidden Dynamics in Our Communication with Clients
  Cynthia Good, MS, LMHCA, IBCLC, CATSM
• Communication and Conflict - How Connection Supports Both
  Elly Taylor, ILPS
• CALM Communication
  Lesley Everest, Doula
• Communications/Connection and Conflict Resolution Within the Extended Family
  Shu-Fang Wang, PhD, RN, CNM, IBCLC President, Chinese Lactation Consultant Association
  
• Communication 360
  Tanya Singleton, BSN, MA, MPH, RN-BC, IBCLC, LCCE

Lactation and Adversity: Addressing Challenges with Confidence Lecture Pack

Lactation professionals are well versed in supporting infant feeding in the context of clinical techniques for improving latch and positioning, increasing milk production etc. It is crucial for care providers to also know how to respond when infant feeding issues are complicated by other factors. How do we help in the face of parental trauma, gender dysphoria, past abuse, homelessness, nursing aversion or other psychosocial or physical challenges? These situations can be difficult for a client to feel safe expressing and require a higher level of clinical skill for the practitioner. This package was designed to provide an in-depth look at some of these situations so that care providers are able to approach them with more skill and confidence.

• Supporting Dyads Facing Past Trauma and Gender Dysphoria
  Anna Brauch, IBCLC
• Palliative Care: Why and How to Provide Lactation Support During Serious Illness or Before an Anticipated Death
  Elizabeth Kirts Smith, MPH, IBCLC, RLC, ICCE
• Survivor Mothers' Speak: Child Sexual Abuse Impacts Breastfeeding Experiences
  Emily C. Taylor, MPH
• The Power of Story Telling: A Tool for Addressing Historical Trauma and Breastfeeding
  Kimberly Moore-Salas, IBCLC
• 10 Steps to a Breastfeeding Friendly Shelter: Building a Policy
  Nikki Lee, RN, BSN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC, RYT
• "Help! Breastfeeding Makes Me Feel Bad, Sad or Mad": Helping Breastfeeding Mothers Struggling With Negative Emotions
  Zainab Yate, Author, MSc, BSc, Breastfeeding Peer Supporter

Translating Knowledge Into Practice: Creating Effective Lactation Care Plans Lecture Pack

A lactation care plan serves several purposes. It provides the client with reminders about what was discussed during the visit with their care provider, what steps they should be following at home and when to follow up. For the care provider, the care plan helps to document care and also serves as a means to encourage collaboration and continuity of care. In short, an effective care plan is an essential tool for lactation professionals. This package provides a look at common clinical situations and each presentation provides a detailed look at how to put a plan in place, when to follow up and how to adjust the care plan as things evolve.

• The Baby's Not Gaining Weight! Now What?
  Barbara Robertson, BA, MA, IBCLC
• Care Plan Design for Treating Infant Oral Dysfunction
  Jacqueline Kincer, IBCLC, CSOM
• Putting a Plan in Place for Pumping
  Karolina Ochoa, BSN, IBCLC
• Walking with NICU Families Through Their Infant Feeding Journey
  Maxine Scringer-Wilkes, RN, BN, MN, IBCLC
• Common Infant Digestive Health Concerns and Useful Support Strategies
  Melissa Cole, MS, IBCLC
• Breastfeeding Beyond All Obstacles: Breastfeeding Families and Complicated Mastitis
  Patricia Díaz Lorenzo, MD, Pediatrician, IBCLC, Doula