La Leche League of Connecticut
Virtual Healthcare Provider Seminar

Objectives:

1. Explain the recommendations concerning cannabis use during lactation.

2. Discuss the research on breastfeeding and neonatal abstinence syndrome.

3. Describe under what circumstances breastfeeding should be encouraged in a birthing parent with a history of substance abuse.

Objectives:

1. Explain how the characteristics of millennial parents should inform our approach to providing lactation help.

2. Summarize 3 possible educational or helping strategies for lactation supporters that involve digital technology.

3.  Describe 2 types of lactation support for parents unique to the digital age.

Objectives:

1.  Summarize the 3 elements that constitute a lactation trainwreck.

2.  Describe specific strategies lactation specialists can use to increase parents’ self-confidence and breastfeeding satisfaction.

3.  Describe how to determine which issues to prioritize when helping a parent in a complicated situation.

Objectives:

1. Explain why the association between infant feeding method and childhood obesity are controversial.

2. Describe how milk intake during the first year differs in breastfed and formula-fed babies, as well as in infants fed human milk by bottle.

3. Summarize what parents of rapidly-gaining exclusively breastfed babies need to know.