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MILK Workshops: Merging Innovation and Lactation Knowledge

The MILK Workshops
Bundles of courses, because you want to learn more about

Merging Innovation and Lactation Knowledge
, of course! 


You want all the information.
Maybe you can’t get to one of my in‑person workshops right now.
Maybe you’ve already attended one of my online or in‑person workshops, courses, or webinars—and you know there’s more to learn.
Or perhaps you've always been intending to sign up for one of the offerings from Babies in Common--NOW is the time!
You already know that what many are calling the “updated way” of flange fitting is essential knowledge if you want to truly improve your clients’ pumping experiences.
And you know that with 132 bottles in my collection, it's a wild world for us and our clients when it comes to choosing bottles AND what the nuances are for using those bottles. 
I want to share it ALL with you!
 
 
You also know this:
There are too many pumps, bottles, nipple shields, and feeding‑related products on the market today—and your clients are using them. They’re bringing products to sessions, asking questions, and expecting confident, evidence‑informed guidance. You want to feel grounded and capable as you help them navigate it all.
 
And perhaps you need CERPs for recertification—while also knowing that continuing education is most valuable when it actually improves your clinical skills.

✔ Earn up to 20 L‑CERPs
✔ Or, if you are an IBCLC, earn up to 26 CERPs
✔ Learn practical, immediately usable tools and techniques
 
That’s where the MILK Workshops come in (pun intended)
 
The Merging Innovation and Lactation Knowledge (MILK) Workshops 
are live, interactive online workshops—with on‑demand replays—designed to bring your lactation knowledge together with the modern tools, products, and techniques our clients are using today.
These workshops delve into:
  • Contemporary approaches to flange fitting (even some new things I'll share since my March 2026 webinars!)
  • Pumps, bottles, nipple shields, and other feeding products
  • Practical techniques that support real‑world milk‑making and infant feeding experiences
  • Helping clients meet their lactation and feeding goals with confidence
Modern tools. Modern techniques. Modern approaches.
 
The MILK Workshops are designed to help you:
  • Grow your confidence with products and innovation
  • Strengthen your clinical skill‑set
  • Better support families in today’s complex feeding landscape
The MILK Workshops were created for all lactation and perinatal professionals who want online education with me. You'll get to MILK them to be sure you got all the nutrients, so to speak!
 
Maybe someday you’ll attend one of my in‑person workshops (and maybe you already have). These MILK Workshops are on-demand so you can watch them whenever is convenient for you. You'll have six months to view them, but if you need more, just let me know.
 
IMPORTANT: You MUST remember to check your spam and promotions/subscriptions folders!!! Otherwise, you may not see the confirmation and reminder emails that are sent to you!!
 

🥛 MILK Workshops
On-Demand Options
Choose a package—or register for individual "workshops".
💡 Your Options at a Glance
✨ 6 months’ access to replays
✨ See below for the details for each package.

 

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Country Category Discounts
Country Category Discounts

 

 

🗓 Individual On-demand "Workshops"

Fitting Flanges for Pumping Milk (Bundle)
$147 | 3 hours (main course) plus additional content | 5.5 L‑CERPs approved by IBCLE
How and why to use the Flange FITS™ Guide, and how to use almost any pump with the many flanges available on the market today to do an "updated" flange fitting for your clients to help them find optimal comfort and often more milk and/or a more efficient pumping session.
Includes the new Wearables course, the Flanges and Fitting: the Updated History and More Recent Evidence, and Implementing Flange Fitting into Your Practice. 

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Nipple Shields: Choosing & Using for Purpose
$37 | 1.25 hours | 1 L‑CERP approved by IBCLE
Many of our clients are using nipple shields, whether they actually needed in the first place or not. There are many types of nipple shields on the market today, and we'll talk about how to help your clients choose and use them (based on why they are using them), with the goal of reducing or eliminating their use (in most cases).


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Wearable Pumps: Dreams vs. Realities
$67 | 2 hours | 1.5 L‑CERPs approved by IBCLE
It seems that most parents want (or already have) a wearable pump, but they are, unfortunately, just not the best pump for everyone. We'll discuss the differences between many of them, how to do a flange fitting for a wearable pump, and the important things to know as you counsel your clients about choosing and using wearable pumps.


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Catchers & Pullers: Counseling Our Clients About Their Use 
$37 | 1.5 hours | 1 L‑CERP approved by IBCLE
Products that catch and pull milk are commonly used by parents and marketed by too many companies today. These products may be helpful for some, but we know they can create problems and/or worries for many families. Let's talk about the different types of milk catchers and suction devices and when and why you might encourage or discourage their use.

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Supplemental Feeders: the Basics
$37 | 1.25 hours | 1 L‑CERP approved by IBCLE
If you are new to supplemental feeding devices (also called supply lines or alternative feeders), this one is for you! We'll go over which ones are on the market, when you might choose them, and some basic information about how to use them. If you'd like more in-depth information on using them and talking about them (gently convincing your clients to use them), then take Johanna Sargeant's workshop (see further below on this page).

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Pacifiers: Counseling Families on Choosing and Using for Purpose
$47 | 1.5 hours | 1.25 L‑CERPs approved by IBCLE
There are too many pacifier options on the market. During this workshop, you'll see most of them close to the camera, and we'll talk about why you might recommend your clients avoid certain ones, as well as why you might encourage them to use others...if using a pacifier is what they are choosing or you are using them for a specific purpose (temporarily).

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Bottles: Counseling Families on Choosing & Using Responsively
$147 | 3 hours | 2 L‑CERPs approved by IBCLE
With over 100 bottles in my collection, we'll talk about why we might encourage our clients to choose certain teat shapes (and flow and texture) over others, which ones we might discourage (and why), and which positions and techniques we might recommend in which situations. 

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Pumping & Feeding Gear Workshop
$297  | 7 L‑CERPs approved by IBCLE

This course takes you through flange fitting and flanges, pumps, nipple shields, bottles and bottlefeeding, catchers and pullers, supplemental feeders, and more gear.  Does this cover a lot of the same as the above individual workshops? Yes! But hearing things more than once and being able to watch it as one course allows you to watch it as one consecutive course.  As adult learners, hearing things more than once and sometimes in a different way helps us learn and think about things from different perspectives.  Included in the WHOLE MILK Package, and recorded separately than the above sessions!

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➕ registration for the Pumping and Feeding Gear includes many bonus videos for everyone, but IBCLCs can choose to earn 6 additional CERPs (for an additional fee) for the PFG Resource Collection.


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Special Workshop (This one is NOT included in any of the MILK Packages)
If you sign up for the WHOLE MILK Package and add this one, that's 23 CERPs!

Exploring Supplemental Feeders: Using Them and Talking About Them
with Johanna Sargeant, IBCLC
Now open to all lactation care providers!
$167 | 3 L‑CERPs approved by IBCLE | 3 hours and 30 minutes of live workshop

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📚 On‑Demand Courses Available NOW, to Everyone
These are already online, as on-demand webinar replays, so if you aren't ready to sign up for one of the packages above, or these aren't included in the package you are choosing, you can start watching as soon as Jeanette or Anne get you access to them (should be within a day or two of you signing up, and each has a 90-day viewing window).  Note that all of these are included in the WHOLE MILK Package!

    • Flanges & Fitting: the Updated History and Most Recent Evidence (new September 2026)
      1 L‑CERP | FREE  sign up
    • Implementing Flange Fitting into Clinical Practice (new September 2026)
      1.5 L‑CERPs | $67  sign me up!
    • Flange Size Matters: Discussing the Evidence (Dr. Lisa Anders and Jeanette talk about their research study)
      No CERP | $10 sign me up!
    • Hacks and Nuances for Pumps and Flange Fitting
      No CERP | $24 sign me up!
    • Practical Tips for Flange Fitting
      No CERP | $34 sign me up!
    • Exploring Wearables: Considerations for Supporting Our Clients
      No CERP | $34 sign me up!
 

 

Country Category Discounts

Pricing to fit where you live...My courses are priced in US dollars, but I know a dollar doesn’t stretch the same everywhere, especially on what lactation consultants, nurses, midwives and doulas actually get paid. So I offer country-based pricing:

  • Category A: full price
  • Category B: 50% off
  • Category C: 70% off
  • Category D: 80% off

Your category is based on the country where you live and work. 
Find your country here.

Don’t see your country, or your situation doesn’t quite fit the list? Just reach out. I’d rather have a conversation than have you miss out on learning. jeanette@babiesincommon.com

BIPOC and/or WIC (low-income clinic) Staff

If you are a BIPOC-identifying IBCLC or perinatal professional or you work FULL-TIME for WIC, email jeanette@babiesincommon.com to inquire about a discount code for 15% off the package price.  

Group Discounts

Contact jeanette@babiesincommon.com for group discounts for those who all work in the same practice or hospital. 

About Your Workshop Facilitator

All of the MILK Workshops (except the Exploring Supplemental Feeders) are taught
by Jeanette Mesite Frem, MHS, IBCLC, CCE

Jeanette is the creator of the Flange FITS™ Guide, which is being used all around the world by more and more lactation and perinatal professionals, including in hospitals. She is an experienced childbirth educator, former birth doula, and an IBCLC-lactation consultant. She is also an international speaker, known for teaching about pumping, flange fitting, bottlefeeding, feeding gear, and more.

Jeanette started her career working with families while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa in the early 1990s. She loved that work so much she went on to receive a public health masters degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, focusing her studies on nutrition for maternal and child health. Her two children were breastfed for more than 2 years each and Jeanette has experience pumping at work for both children and has supported more than a thousand families with breastfeeding, chestfeeding, pumping, bottlefeeding, cupfeeding, tubefeeding, etc. over the years. 

Jeanette provides prenatal childbirth and breastfeeding classes at her office in Northborough, Massachusetts, as well as providing office and virtual feeding consultations. She also enjoys leading workshops for perinatal health professionals and mentoring those who work with families.  If you have questions, feel free to email jeanette@babiesincommon.com.

What people have said about my workshops

I want to tell you; I am a seasoned OB nurse for 29 years and Lactation Consultant for over 15 years.  It never occurred to me that we were fitting our patients incorrectly in their flanges!! That is, until YOU came along!  What enlightening information to learn.  I am at a busy children's hospital in […] and also work in their clinic and your expertise and knowledge has helped out so many of our families.  As you know, many more families are pumping and bottle feeding now due to working, better pumps, etc., so to have this extra knowledge to help these families has been exceptional and so very helpful. THANK YOU!!!  Sincerely, Cindie L

Thank you so much for your fabulous talk. I watched it yesterday and already I have been able to change a woman’s expressing journey for the better. She came to me using size 24mm flanges (what came with her pump). I measured her up and her nipple tip measured 10mm…… the smallest we have is 13mm here at the hospital, so we tried those and doubled her output. She was totally amazed, pain free, and with the same sized nipple as she started with. She has gone to source the smaller size to see if that is better. One happy IBCLC – one happy mummy. Thank you so much. ~ Ange, IBCLC, Perth Western Australia

"I have been on a soap box for many years about how unethical it is that pump companies don't send more sizes of flanges to families. I am a board certified lactation consultant and can still remember when I was pumping my size 12mm nipples with a 24mm flange. Se essentially, 12mm of my areola were also being pumped! It caused tissue damage, pain and frustration and I have been pissed since. That was 11 years ago! But, I didn't quite know what to do about it. Jeanette's course connected the dots, gave me confidence to explore professional flange fitting, all with evidence based practices behind it. It is a pivot we will look back on in the lactation history books. I can't wait to help all of my future clients." ~ Tara Czapla, IBCLC  

Fantastic Course on Pumping & Feeding Tools—Highly Recommend! I recently completed the Pumping & Feeding Gear course for IBCLCs by Jeannette Mesite, and it was absolutely fantastic! The course was incredibly informative, providing a deep dive into the different pumping and feeding tools available and how they can best support families. Jeannette’s teaching style is clear, engaging, and practical, making complex topics easy to understand. I feel much more confident in guiding clients through the various options and troubleshooting potential issues. I highly recommend this course to any IBCLC looking to expand their knowledge in this area! ~ Maria Fernandez

I think this course is so important that ALL IBCLC's should take it. It is rare for most IBCLC's to be able to see all the pumps, wearables, bottles, and feeding devices on the market the way you can in this course. It was so helpful to understand the history of pumps and flanges and to really challenge the way we traditionally do things. This course will change the way you practice! I highly recommend this course. ~ Dr. Carrie Dendtler, PT DPT IBCLC

I would absolutely recommend the Pumping & Feeding Gear course for IBCLCs. As a newer IBCLC, seasoned NICU occupational therapist, and mother of 4 there were many jaw dropping moments for me around being introduced to her updated way of flange fitting. My mind is absolutely blown at how wrong we've gotten it for so long!! The examples Jeanette provides of how different pumps, pump settings, and the use of untraditional sized flanges really play into comfort and milk output are super helpful. She has me a 100% believer that as an IBCLC after taking this course, I can go out there and help change the trajectory of many pumping journeys! - Kathy Jessen OTR/L, IBCLC

 

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NOTE: Taking any handout, workshop, webinar, or online course offered by Jeanette Mesite Frem/Babies in Common) is for your information, to be used in your clinical practice. No one is permitted, without my expression permission to take what they learned in any educational offering hosted or provided by Jeanette or Babies in Common, or colleagues collaborating with Jeanette/Babies in Common, and then teach it as their own. My/our intellectual property is my/our own, as much as how I/we teach it, the approach, the nuances, any documents, statements, slides, forms, handouts, graphics, etc. It is unfortunate that I need to say this, but unfortunately, I do. Thank you for understanding and for being an ethical provider of lactation and perinatal care.  ~ Jeanette Mesite Frem, Babies in Common