I highly recommend joining the La Leche League and benefiting from the advice of highly
trained lactation experts!
Not exact matches
Each trainee receives
lactation support
training with an IBCLC, advanced doula skills taught by highly experienced doulas, and also marketing skills by proven
experts in the field of promoting birth businesses.
In a recently published article, by Pacific Standard Magazine, entitled The Unseen Consequences of Pumping Breast Milk, multiple
lactation consultant
experts explain not only the difference between the two, but express what
trained lactation consultants should be doing differently (in ways of assisting mothers in both technique and education).
Lactation consultants are breastfeeding
experts, and go through a lengthy
training process and pass a board exam to become IBCLCs (International Board Certified
Lactation Consultants).
Pediatricians are the baby
experts but I don't think they get extensive breastfeeding education during their medical
training (Of course, peds are welcome to chime in on this)
Lactation consultants ARE the breastfeeding
experts and should be first people to call.
2 - IBCLC's are ready and available as
trained experts in
lactation.
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.
Our
expert, Cindy Cathie is a CAPPA certified postpartum doula,
trained lactation educator and childbirth educator.
This combination of academic knowledge, clinical
training, and testing are the defining characteristics of IBCLCs,
experts in
lactation.
Our
expert today is Sejal Fichadia, CAPPA Certified Postpartum Doula,
Trained Lactation Educator and a certified in Infant Tummy Time and Kangaroo Care.
Our board and advisory committee, volunteers and consultants are maternal - child health
experts with
training and experience in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, maternal mental health, perinatal psychology, maternity and newborn nursing, midwifery,
lactation support, public health, health promotion, doula support and childbirth education.
I agree that reducing the harm untrained health workers tend to do is useful; that
trained lactation management
experts can play one important role; and that lay counselors can play an even larger one.
She completed her undergraduate work at the University of San Francisco and became a
Lactation Consultant through UCLA, where she felt blessed to have been
trained by
experts.