Registration
Schedule
8:30
Registration and
Continental Breakfast
describes common challenges and
strategies to overcome them.
9:00-10:15 Session I
Facilitating State Control in
Non-Latching Infants
(Reducing the baby’s stress with
latching challenges)
Maternal interpretations of infant behavior and
signs of frustration can affect her motivation to
breastfeed. Explores how LCs can improve the
dyad’s ability to work through breastfeeding
difficulties.
4:00
10:15
Meat – Chicken salad on croissant with
fresh fruit salad, potato salad and dessert
Break
10:30-12:00 Session II
Good Latch, Bad Latch: Nuances of
Attachment
Identifying the subtle signs of suboptimal vs.
optimal attachment
Evaluate
Address:______________________________
City:__________________________________
We request that only quiet nursing
babies (under 8 months) be brought
into the classroom.
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Lunch Choices:
Vegetarian – Grilled Portobello with
vegetables and mozzarella on herb focaccia
with pearl pasta salad and dessert
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session III
Choosing and Using Breastfeeding Tools: A
Clinical Reasoning Approach
A strategy for clinical observation and decisionmaking is detailed, to show how different
devices are used in individualized feeding
goals.
Our Host:
2:15-2:30 Break
Located off Sam Jones Expressway, east of
I-465, only minutes from the airport.
2:30-4:00 Session IV
Facilitating Breastfeeding in NICU
Graduates
Explores what can be done to transition ill and
preterm babies to direct breast-feeding, and
Name_________________________________
Wyndham Indianapolis West
2544 Executive Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46241
Phone: 317-248-2481
Any questions, please contact:
kmweiss05@gmail.com
Coming soon—online registration at
www.lllofindiana.org
**Registrations by mail-- postmarked by 4/8/13; if
not, register at door, and lunch will not be included
Fees: Payment due with registration
______ $120 for registrants, includes CERPS
and lunch **
______ $85 for LLL Leaders, includes
CERPS and lunch**
Lunch choices:
______ Meat
______ Vegetarian
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Card #:_____________________________________
Exp. Date____________________
Mail to: Karen Weiss
8552 S 575 W
Morgantown, IN 46160
La Leche League of Indiana
Our Speaker
Catherine Watson Genna BS, IBCLC is an International
Board Certified Lactation Consultant in private practice
in New York City. Certified in 1992, Catherine is
particularly interested in helping moms and babies
breastfeed when they have medical challenges. She
speaks to healthcare professionals around the world on
assisting breastfeeding babies with anatomical, genetic
or neurological problems. She is the author of Selecting
and Using Breastfeeding Tools: Improving Care and
Outcomes (Hale 2009) and Supporting Sucking Skills in
Breastfeeding Infants (Jones and Bartlett Publishers
2012) as well as professional journal articles. Catherine
is an active La Leche League Leader currently serves as
Associate Editor for the United States Lactation
Consultant Association journal Clinical Lactation.
Objectives:
Attendees will be able to:
List three facets of neurobehavioral
organization theory that relate to
breastfeeding
Discuss the importance of
scaffolding maternal coping so the
mother can assist her infant
List four subtle signs of a shallow
latch
List two ways to facilitate infant
and maternal innate feeding
capabilities.
Detail strategies for optimizing latch when
breastfeeding tools are needed.
Detail cogent clinical factors in the
choice of breastfeeding tools.
Describe advantages and
disadvantages of three tools for
supplementing at the breast
List two factors to consider in properly
fitting a nipple shield
Describe the steps of paced bottle
feeding with cueing to protect
breastfeeding skills
Identify situations in which
fingerfeeding using an active flow
device may be chosen.
Discuss device choices and methods of
use for dyads with several types of feeding issues.
Differentiate healthy term newborn feeding skills
compared to preterm/ill feeding skills
Detail the effects of immature respiratory and
oral motor feeding skills on breastfeeding for
preterm/ill infants
Detail methods for transitioning preterm/ill
infants to breastfeeding
Presents
First Hours, First Days:
Best Practices for Positive
Breastfeeding Outcomes
Featuring
Catherine Watson Genna, BS,
IBCLC
April 16, 2013
Wyndham Indianapolis West