Kathleen Huggins is a registered nurse and board - certified lactation consultant who has been
counseling breastfeeding mothers for more than 25 years.
To assess the impact of the intervention on resident behaviors when
counseling breastfeeding mothers, post-visit telephone interviews of mothers were conducted before and after the intervention.
The modified instrument contained 11 questions evaluating resident attitudes about their role in
counseling breastfeeding mothers and feelings of competence in providing those services.
Lactation Counseling and Problem Solving (LCAPS - 1 day) This newly revised course is designed for health professionals who
counsel breastfeeding mothers and would like to improve problem - solving skills.
«An Introduction:
Counseling the Breastfeeding Mother» and companion videotapes and teaching materials for parents and professionals by Mead Johnson Nutritionals (1989), March 1990
I am the president and co-founder of LATCH and usually, we are asked to teach about breastfeeding, latching and positioning or
counsel breastfeeding mothers but today, I have the task of sharing with you my thoughts.....
Passport to life: breastmilk banking in India Perspectives on human milk banking Portugal: rediscovering breastfeeding Promoting breastfeeding in urban communities Promoting the benefits of breastfeeding Training health care workers to
counsel breastfeeding mothers WHO study Women, work and breastfeeding Zealous promotion of breastfeeding is not the answer (letter)
Not exact matches
Their specialization is nothing less than helping
mothers and advising them in a
counseling and even medical role on
breastfeeding.
As a past volunteer for Nursing
Mother's
Counsel, and additional training as a Lactation Educator, Donna has vast experience supporting new moms as they journey towards
breastfeeding success.
Interviews of
breastfeeding mothers after clinical encounters with residents showed substantial increases in active
counseling behaviors after the intervention compared with preintervention interviews of
mothers.
Other
breastfeeding organizations such as Nursing Mothers Counsel, Breastfeeding USA, and The Australian Breastfeeding Association also hold group meetings for breastfeeding mothers or offer breastfeeding support through email or telepho
breastfeeding organizations such as Nursing
Mothers Counsel, Breastfeeding USA, and The Australian Breastfeeding Association also hold group meetings for breastfeeding mothers or offer breastfeeding support through email or telephone hel
Mothers Counsel,
Breastfeeding USA, and The Australian Breastfeeding Association also hold group meetings for breastfeeding mothers or offer breastfeeding support through email or telepho
Breastfeeding USA, and The Australian
Breastfeeding Association also hold group meetings for breastfeeding mothers or offer breastfeeding support through email or telepho
Breastfeeding Association also hold group meetings for
breastfeeding mothers or offer breastfeeding support through email or telepho
breastfeeding mothers or offer breastfeeding support through email or telephone hel
mothers or offer
breastfeeding support through email or telepho
breastfeeding support through email or telephone helplines.
Residents» knowledge and confidence about
breastfeeding were assessed using a questionnaire, and their behaviors for
counseling and support of
breastfeeding mothers were assessed with telephone interviews of the
mothers.
Where all
mothers receive at least 7 skilled support /
counselling contacts exclusive
breastfeeding rates are higher.
This year's World
Breastfeeding Week (WBW) theme, «
Breastfeeding Support: Close to
Mothers,» highlights
Breastfeeding Peer
Counselling.
If you are a health professional, you could assess if activities related to the above areas are being recorded as part of your monitoring and evaluation e.g. if
mothers receive
breastfeeding counselling, is it recorded and reported anywhere in the patient records?
Breast pain, breast engorgement, difficulties latching, a lethargic baby - these are all signs that a skilled
breastfeeding professional should be brought in to
counsel the new
mother.
Among the new communication efforts are peer group
counseling programs in which successful
breastfeeding mothers are enlisted to help others in areas where high infant - mortality rates might be reduced by nutrition from
breastfeeding.
As a clinical expert in the management of
breastfeeding and human lactation, the IBCLC is trained to
counsel mothers and families on initiation, exclusivity, and duration of
breastfeeding, and to assist amidst any difficul ¬ ties or high - risk situations.
Books $ 200 (recommended books include
Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Core Curriculum for the Lactation Consultant, The
Breastfeeding Atlas,
Counselling the Nursing
Mother and The Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review).
States have the obligation to provide
mothers with accurate and unbiased information and
counseling from the start of their pregnancy, including on the continuation of
breastfeeding up to 2 years or beyond.
Lauwers, Judith and Debbie Shinske
COUNSELING THE NURSING MOTHER: A Lactation Consultant's Guide Jones & Bartlett, 4th ed., 2005 Extensive information on counseling skills and breastfeeding m
COUNSELING THE NURSING
MOTHER: A Lactation Consultant's Guide Jones & Bartlett, 4th ed., 2005 Extensive information on
counseling skills and breastfeeding m
counseling skills and
breastfeeding management.
Hospitals provide the
counselling and advice by trained NHS staff to enable
breastfeeding to be established straight after birth, should the
mother wish to
breastfeed.
With a background in Anthropology and an ear for the unspoken, she particularly enjoys
counselling mothers with empathy and humor through the challenging experiences of
mothering through
breastfeeding in American culture.
Donna has also volunteered with Nursing
Mothers Counsel and has extensive education in
breastfeeding support.
Develop and maintain effective communications and collaboration with other health care providers to ensure optimal
breastfeeding education, support, and
counsel for
mother and infant.
Doctors Without Borders shares Video on
Breastfeeding Mother Support / Peer
Counselling in the Middle East
This includes increasing maternity leave, strengthening the quality of care in maternity facilities to include lactation
counselling, and protecting against aggressive marketing of breast - milk substitutes so that
mothers can gain confidence in their
breastfeeding abilities.
Together, they conduct
counselling sessions to encourage
mothers to continue
breastfeeding their children and distribute donated breastmilk to evacuation centres.
Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to
counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop
breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding
Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacemen
Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO
counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacemen
counseling cards; and take - home brochures for
mothers on exclusive
breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.
Dr Cota Vallenas De Villar: One needs to have skilled health workers, or field workers even if they are not health professionals, who can provide
counselling to
mothers to help them continue
breastfeeding if they are
breastfeeding.
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men: evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project
Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context o
Mother - to -
Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context o
Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive
breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context o
mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal
breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any
breastfeeding, exclusive
breastfeeding and continued
breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF
Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context of HIV.
Complementary feeding
counselling: a training course (2004)
Breastfeeding counselling: A training course (1993) Geneva, World Health Organization 1993 This course is designed to provide health workers with the skills needed to support
mothers and their children to
breastfeed optimally.
Also provided is private lactation
counseling, in office and at the client's home, for support with latching, normal baby feeding patterns, nipple care, milk supply, and preparing
breastfeeding mothers for the return to work.
• Effective
breastfeeding counseling for
mothers who have undergone breast or nipple procedures
There are other groups similar to La Leche League.The Australian
Breastfeeding Association (formerly the Nursing
Mothers» Association of Australia) has lots of good materials and information at its website, even if you don't live in Australia.The Nursing
Mothers Counsel is active in certain parts of the United States.
They do not
counsel mothers on individual
breastfeeding problems.
For a variety of reasons, including the lack of
breastfeeding counselling, still too many
mothers stop exclusive
breastfeeding within a few weeks after delivery.
Resort to more than one method of education and support in the present study (booklets + oral
counselling) has proved more effective than choosing one (oral
counselling) to improve
mothers» knowledge, and consequently, continue to exclusively
breastfeed until the age of 6 months.
Counselling provided by 28 National Childbirth Trust (NCT) accredited counsellors, by women who had breastfed and had training in counselling (non-directive approach and strengthening mothers» confidence in own
Counselling provided by 28 National Childbirth Trust (NCT) accredited counsellors, by women who had
breastfed and had training in
counselling (non-directive approach and strengthening mothers» confidence in own
counselling (non-directive approach and strengthening
mothers» confidence in own abilities).
Principles of Lactation Management (POLM - 2 day) Participants will be able to
counsel families about the benefits of
breastfeeding, assist
mothers in managing common
breastfeeding problems, make appropriate referrals, teach
breastfeeding classes, prepare
breastfeeding materials, and support
breastfeeding through
breastfeeding - friendly policies and procedures.
Basic interventions to facilitate
breastfeeding include prioritising
mothers with young children for shelter, food, security, and water and sanitation, enabling
mother - to -
mother support, providing specific space for skilled
breastfeeding counselling and support to maintain or re-establish lactation.
Mothers found positive for THC in urine screens should be strongly advised to avoid continued exposure to this drug while
breastfeeding and should be
counseled that continued exposure of their infants to cannabis may produce severe long - term neurobehavioral consequences.
Karleen went into some depth, including case studies and a role play, to illustrate what
breastfeeding counselling is and is not, covering: the theoretical foundations of
counselling practice (unconditional positive regard, congruence, creating emotional safety), the theoretical foundations of
counselling process (empathetic understanding, understanding the
mother's experience and validating, accepting and valuing that experience), key
counselling skills, exploratory questions, clarifying questions, offering information not instruction, offering appropriate reassurance and then offering suggestions and helping to make a plan.
The Private Practice Lactation Consultant Workshop: presented «Milk Synthesis: an Analysis of Existing Theories on «Making Milk» in Light of Current Research» and «Beyond Technical Skills:
Counseling Skills to Defuse Issues That Undermine a
Mother's Ability to «Hang in There» and Solve Her
Breastfeeding Problems.»
With
breastfeeding counselling skills, you do not dictate to
mothers, and you do not promote a course they may well not be happy with, by either reaffirming myths or pushing formula as an alternative.
Nursing
Mothers Counsel, Inc. —
Breastfeeding support by phone, home visits, free prenatal classes by highly - trained volunteer counselors who have also
breastfed.
Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple: A Guide for Helping Mothers by Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA is a comprehensive, research - based counseling guide that provides the answers to virtually every breastfeeding question in an easy - to - use two - c
Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple: A Guide for Helping
Mothers by Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA is a comprehensive, research - based
counseling guide that provides the answers to virtually every
breastfeeding question in an easy - to - use two - c
breastfeeding question in an easy - to - use two - column format.
Breastfeeding peer counselors from Nursing Mothers Counsel will present information every mom needs to get breastfeeding off to the
Breastfeeding peer counselors from Nursing
Mothers Counsel will present information every mom needs to get
breastfeeding off to the
breastfeeding off to the right start.
To determine the extent of exclusive
breastfeeding practices among
mothers of 4 and 6 month old infants whose fathers received
breastfeeding education materials and
counseling services.
All
mothers having access to skilled
breastfeeding counseling and support, both at health facility level and community level