When offering support and advice to women who are breast feeding, it’s vital to have a sound understanding of breastfeeding physiology. This presentation will draw on the instructional animation, “Breastfeeding hormones in Play” as a foundation to explore how breastfeeding physiology translates to clinical practice when supporting women to breastfeed.
The #1 cause of early weaning and formula supplementation is worries about milk production. This presentation describes insights and teaching tools (some newly developed) that lactation supporters can use to help more families better understand milk production and the impact of their choices on their ability to meet their long-term feeding goals. Includes basic milk production dynamics, their impact on engorgement and oversupply, special considerations for families with multiples and employed parents, as well as those exclusively pumping, relactating, and inducing lactation.
Expressing with an electric pump can be a great tool for increasing and maintaining milk supply where the baby is unable or unwilling to do so themselves. Those who choose to exclusively express, or who are perhaps ‘forced’ to do so due to circumstances, may only represent a small portion of the breastfeeding population, but they also deserve to be provided with good knowledge and support. There is not much evidence for the how and what of expressing and so a lot can be gained from listening to the experiences of those who are living through it. In this presentation we will explore how to support a mother to increase and maintain her supply long term, finding the right size flange, the emotional experience of expressing and how to support this, and dispel a few myths surrounding expressing.
Justine Van Der Watt
Justine is a registered nurse, endorsed midwife, and IBCLC. She has worked in neonatal ICU’s in Perth, Western Australia, and the United Kingdom since 2007. When she gave birth to her daughter 2014, she had every intention of breastfeeding well into full time, but it seemed that the universe had a different path for her and she exclusively expressed until her daughter was 10mths. This spurred her on to start her business – Cherished Parenting Services - in March 2016. In late 2017 she started as a lactation consultant in private practice and in May 2019 added private antenatal and postnatal midwifery services.
Nicki Hartney
Nicki has been a midwife for over 30 years. She became a lactation consultant in 1997, maintaining this credential until 2016. At this time, her midwifery educator role in a large regional teaching hospital eventually led her to academia, when she began her role as a lecturer and course director in Midwifery at Deakin University. She continues to draw on her lactation skills and knowledge inspiring the next generation of midwives in this current role.
Nancy Mohrbacher
Nancy began helping nursing families in 1982 as a volunteer peer supporter. She became an IBCLC in 1991 and spent 10 years growing a large private lactation practice in the Chicago area, where she worked one-on-one with thousands of families. Nancy is the author or co-author of three current books for nursing parents and two for lactation specialists, including her 2020 textbook, Breastfeeding Answers (2nd ed). Her Breastfeeding Solutions app is used worldwide, and her YouTube channel has millions of views. She currently creates innovative lactation education for aspiring and recertifying lactation consultants online at LactaLearning.com and speaks at events internationally. Nancy was in the first group of 16 to be honoured for their contributions to breastfeeding with the designation FILCA, Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association.
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