Session 3: Saturday 1:15-2:30 p.m.
301* - Keystone 10: Collaboration With Hospitals to Advance the 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding -- Dottie Schell, Kay Hoover, Sarah Glenn
- Join the Director of the Keystone 10 Program and two IBCLCs working to implement change at their hospitals. This panel will discuss how adopting and implementing evidence-based maternity care practices are improving the initiation, duration, and exclusivity rates of breastfeeding across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Please Note: This is a CERP session. We ask that attendance by children be limited to quiet infants in arms and nonseparating children who can sit quietly.
302 - The Late-Preterm Baby -- Ruth Solomon
- Preterm babies born between 35 and 38 weeks present a breastfeeding dilemma. Identify typical issues of late-preterm babies and how to support a mother through the early weeks postpartum.
303 - Making It Work -- Elizabeth Shotwell
- Meeting your breastfeeding goals while navigating the challenges of separation from baby due to employment, school, or other circumstances. Long-term pumping skills, maintaining milk supply, and child-care options will be discussed.
304 - Fathering -- TBA
- Come join this stand-up comic turned father to talk and laugh about parenting in a breastfeeding family.
305 - Grand-Parenting Is Not for Wimps -- Judy Polley and Ginny Wilkinson
- Come discuss the delights and challenges that come from being a grandparent. (Alum)
* CERP applied for