Cost

$10.00 non-members
$9.00 members (must be logged in to receive the discount)
Includes access to the eCourse for 1 year

Overview

This 1-hour course discusses the strategies to optimize breastfeeding and lactation in the immediate postpartum period. This course is part of a 5-day Comprehensive Breastfeeding Medicine Course for Physicians and Other Providers.

Objectives

• Describe the physiologic triggers that lead to secretory activation
• Identify 3 key hospital routines that enable breastfeeding within the first hour after birth
• Name 2 reasons why a breastfeeding newborn might have exaggerated jaundice
• Identify 2 ways to support breastfeeding when a newborn has not yet latched by the time of hospital discharge

Topic Outline

• Lactogenesis II
• Early skin to skin contact and sudden unexpected neonatal collapse
• Colostrum volumes
• Key points on successful feeding in the first few days postpartum
• Evidence for rooming-in
• Pacifier use
• Hand expression to improve milk intake by the infant
• Engorgement etiology and management
• Neonatal jaundice
• The non-latching neonate-etiologies and strategies for management

Accreditation

CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed The Immediate Postpartum Period and deemed it acceptable for up to 1 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 02/14/2023 to 02/13/2024. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.

CERPs: This recorded course has been allocated 1 (L) CERP recognized by IBLCE. Long Term Provider #117-04.
IABLE has been accepted by International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) as a CERP 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. INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAMINERS®, IBLCE®, INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT®, and IBCLC® are registered marks of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Nursing Credits: All state boards for nursing licensure approve of educational offerings that are approved by the American Nursing Credentialling Center (ANCC)
According to ANCC Certification, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal. https://www.nursingworld.org/certification/faqs/

Speaker

Anne Eglash MD, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to practicing family medicine, she has been a board certified lactation consultant since 1994.

Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine, has been the lead author on several Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine protocols, and was an associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.

She co-hosts and produces a breastfeeding medicine podcast series, called The Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast. Dr. Eglash is the founder and president of the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education.

Conflicts of Interest

None