Outline

• Breastfeeding Initiatives

• Communication and counseling

• Preparing to Breastfeed

• Normal Breastfeeding

• Mom baby separation & milk expression

Objectives

• Explain effective counseling skills in a participant focused approach

• Identify ways breastfeeding impacts maternal and infant health

• List barriers to breastfeeding and describe strategies to overcome them.

• Identify major parts of the breast involved in making milk and name the primary hormones of lactation and their role in milk production.

• Describe early practices that can facilitate a good start with breastfeeding and list tips to identify infant feeding cues and how to know baby is getting enough

• Explain steps to effective positioning and latch at the breast and distinguish between an effective and ineffective infant latch

• Describe basic steps to hand expression