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Exploring Supplemental Feeders: Using Them and Talking About Them

Build Your Confidence with this Workshop

As International Board Certified Lactation Consultants, it is important that we choose the appropriate tools to help our clients reach their goal. 
When their goal is to feed their baby at-breast, at-chest or with their body, it's vital that we have the confidence and knowledge to introduce appropriate supply-line feeding devices, also called supplemental feeding devices in some parts of the world. We need to have an in-depth understanding of the differences between them AND know how to talk about them with our clients, increasing the likelihood they'll use them successfully and reach their goal. 
 

This workshop provides IBCLCs* with information, techniques and suggested language to increase your confidence in using supply-line feeding devices with your clients. Many supply-line feeding devices will be demonstrated and participants will be encouraged to share what they know and have experienced in their work with families related to these tools.

In this workshop, you'll...

  • understand the benefits and barriers of at-breast/at-chest or body supplementation,
  • know when and how to suggest supplemental feeders,
  • learn tips to make using supplemental feeders simple, feasible and sustainable, 
  • know how to use the variety of supplementation tools (6 different options, possibly more), 
  • practice with a variety of case studies, to understand which tool would work best, and
  • know how to use appropriate language (our words have power!) with our clients when introducing and discussing this method of supplementation. 

This workshop is led by Johanna Sargeant, BEd, BA, IBCLC. Johanna is an Australian lactation consultant based in Zurich, Switzerland, where she lives with her husband, two boys and one fluffy dog. With extensive training in occupational therapy, biomedical science, psychology and teaching, she empowers parents with compassionate, personalised care through her private practice, Milk and Motherhood. In addition to working privately with clients, she has worked alongside the European Society of Paediatric Research and the European School of Neonatology to create and teach new breastfeeding education modules, has taught at the University of Zurich, spoken as a panellist for the WHO’s Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative congress,and has been an expert speaker and facilitator for ELACTA, USLCA, Gold, and wide variety of other international conferences. She co-hosts the podcast The Latch Revolution and runs the online course 'Decoding the Suck', where she teaches practical information about infant oral dysfunction. In her other life, between cappuccinos, she is a published writer of short stories, essays and poetry, and is currently very almost finished with her first novel, a psychological literary thriller. 

WHEN?

Choose one:
Wednesday, July 1, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Thursday, August 20, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT

$167 per person
3 L-CERPs have been approved by IBLCE.
If workshops fill, we will consider adding more dates.

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*If you are not an IBCLC or would rather a shorter workshop with more of an overview of the basics about supplemental feeders, check out this option with Jeanette Mesite Frem. learn more

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Babies in Common has been accepted by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) as a Preferred Provider for the listed Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) programme. Determination of CERPs eligibility or CERPs Provider status does not imply IBLCE’s endorsement or assessment of education quality. As a Preferred Provider, Babies in Common attests that it complies with the WHO Code and subsequent WHA resolutions.