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DON’T FORGET!!!!

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Just a reminder for those who registered-Our conference is Thursday June 2, 2011 8:00am

The 9th Annual Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance Conference –”Back To The Basics” will be held June 2, 2011.  Speakers and exhibits impart evidence-based information for 130 local providers of breastfeeding support.   The workshop is supported by WakeAHEC. Last year’s conference was sold out and we have about 30 less seats this year.

 

9th Annual Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance Conference:
Finding Tools to Provide Excellent Care

Registration is now open on the WakeAHEC website (for 1 E CERPS, 3.0 L CERPS and 2.75 R CERPS from IBLCE) for the Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance conference on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The agenda is attached. Please post an announcement on the websites. An advertising flyer will follow soon.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
WakeMed Andrews Conference Center
3024 New Bern Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27610

AGENDA

8:30 AM         Opening
Sherika HiSmith George, MPH, BSN
Associate Director, Nursing Education
Wake AHEC, Raleigh, NC

8:35                    Welcome and Overview
Sheri Taylor, RN BSN, IBCLC, CIMI
Clinical Specialist – Lactation / Infant Nutrition
RexHealthcare, Raleigh, NC

8:45                    Ouch! Update on Causes and Treatment of Breast Pain
Alison Stuebe, MD
Obstetrician
UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

Objective: Explain the role of infection in the pathophysiology of breastfeeding associated pain.

9:45                    Door Prizes/Exhibits/Networking Break

10:00                   Hand Expression: A Helpful Tool for Working with Breastfeeding Mothers
Diane Asbill, RN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant for the Outpatient Clinic
UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
Robyn Lewis, RN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant for the Mother Baby Unit
UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

Objective: Describe an effective hand expression technique that increases milk volume when breastfeeding and/or pumping.

11:00                   Door Prizes/Exhibits/Networking Break

11:10                   Effects of Our US Health Care Culture: Self-Assessment of Your Practice
Catherine S. Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, IBCLC, RLC
State Breastfeeding Coordinator, Nutrition Services Branch
Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC

Objective: Discuss the impact of the US health care culture on the ethical considerations underpinning your work with breastfeeding families.

12:10 PM                Lunch
Door Prizes//Exhibits/Networking Break

12:55                   Breastfeeding Issues Related to Obesity: Helping Mothers Who Have Had Breast Reduction, Bariatric Surgery, Etc.
Phyllis Kombol, MSN, RNC, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant
Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast, Concord, NC

Objective: Explain approaches to assisting with breastfeeding that may prove successful when working with mothers who have had breast reduction or bariatric surgery.

1:55                    Door Prizes/Exhibits/Networking Break

2:05                    Keeping the Very Young Baby Close: Kangaroo Care
Jim Helm, PhD
Developmental Team
WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Raleigh, NC

Objective: Discuss the physiologic basis for the benefits of kangaroo care for infants.

2:55                    Benefits of Keeping the Older Baby Close: Babywearing
Donna J. Hedgepeth, DC, DACCP
Diplomate in Pregnancy and Pediatric Chiropractic
Keystone Chiropractic, Raleigh, NC

Objective: Explain the advantages of parents maintaining close physical contact with their young children.

3:30                    Break

3:40                    How Close Is Too Close? The Co-Sleeping Controversy
Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FACPM, IBCLC, FABM
Director, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute
School of Public Health, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC

Objective: “Examine the quality of evidence used as the basis for decisions about where infants sleep.”

4:40                    What’s In Your Tool Kit?
Sheri Taylor, RN BSN, IBCLC, CIMI
Clinical Specialist – Lactation / Infant Nutrition
RexHealthcare, Raleigh, NC

4:50                                    Dance-Emma Janyska

4:55                    Door Prizes and Adjourn

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Categories : Education

Is “Try Formula” the Answer to Breastfeeding Guilt?

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

“It’s okay to try formula, you know.”

Those are the words our family doctor uttered when I burst into tears in her office when my first born child was four weeks old and still hadn’t latched on once. I’d been pumping every two to three hours around the clock with a manual Avent Isis pump ever since he was born, feeding him the pumped milk, and trying over and over again to get him to latch on; to no avail.

“Yes, I know,” I said, blowing my nose between sobs, “but I don’t want to.”

 

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Categories : Breastfeeding, General

Women Who Delay Return To Work Breastfeed Longer: Study

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

When Paige’s daughter was 6 months old, her boss called her into his office and demanded to know how long she planned to breastfeed.

Paige, a research assistant at a university in Tennessee, says she had been pumping three times a day for 20 minutes at a time, closing the door to her office so she could use a hands-free model and continue working. But her boss was unhappy.

 

Read rest of the article-Huffington Post

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Working Moms

FDA Warns Not to Feed SimplyThick to Premature Infants

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Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Do not feed the thickening product called SimplyThick to infants born before 37 weeks because it may cause a life-threatening condition.

This advice to parents, caregivers, and health care providers from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is based on reports of infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in which tissue in the intestines becomes inflamed and dies.

 

Read the rest of the article-Food and Drug Administration

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Categories : Breastfeeding, Professionals

Important Research Study – Can you help?

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Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Recruiting Flyer

Bulletin Board Flyer

Please email Kathy if you can help -

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am working on a research study that will look into women’s interpretations of infant formula advertising as part of my summer practicum at the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (part of the UNC School of Public Health). I hope you might be able to use your contacts to help me recruit participants for the study. We’re looking for women who want to get pregnant, women who are pregnant, and women who have had a child within the last three years (both women who breastfed and women who formula fed). Here are the details:

We will conduct 4 focus groups over the weekend of June 24th – 26th, to be held at Chapel Hill Library and the Teer House in Durham. Each group will have 8 to 12 women and will last no more than 90 minutes, during which time we will show them 5 formula advertisements and record their reactions.

I am currently putting together a goodie bag of incentives from local businesses as a thank you gift for participants – everyone will receive something for their time. There will also be snacks and drinks provided. (Please let me know if you would like to contribute.)

We’ll use the insights we gain into the decision-making parameters used by these women to help health care providers design more effective approaches to the promotion of breastfeeding. Our findings will also be sent to the Federal Trade Commission for their consideration in regulating infant formula advertising. This is so exciting!  It is important to note is that we won’t be sharing this goal with the participants because we don’t want that to alter their view in any way of the ads.

There are many ways you can help:

~Personal communication – I think this would be the most effective way to ensure attendance at the focus groups. You could ask specific women you come into contact with over the next couple weeks if they would consider being a part of this important study.

~Read an announcement script in your class or group, if applicable (script attached).

~ Allow me to come in for the last 5 minutes of your class or group to speak to the women about the study and encourage them to participate.

~Post the recruitment flyer designed for bulletin boards (attached, and I can deliver color copies to you).

~Hand out the recruitment flyer designed for individual distribution (attached, and I can deliver color copies in full size or small 3×5 sized).

~Email the recruitment flyer to your contacts, personally inviting them to participate.

Thank you in advance for your timely support.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Kathy Parry, LMBT, CEIM
MPH Candidate, Maternal & Child Health
Graduate Research Assistant
Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
kparry@email.unc.edu
(919) 966.8588 w. (828) 242.6881 c.

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Categories : General

6/1 CTG Call for BF Coalitions

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Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Here is our chance to find out more about a grant opportunity –

Breastfeeding Coalition Members:

USBC is planning a networking call next Wednesday for breastfeeding coalitions interested in participating in the new CTGs (Community Transformation Grants) from CDC. Info about this Funding Opportunity is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation.

 

USBC Networking Call Info

Wednesday, June 1

2 pm ET / 1 pm CT / 12 noon MT / 11 am PT

Dial-in Number: 1-712-432-3066
Conference Code: 513879

We will also record the call and post it at the link below, for those who can’t attend at this time. But we don’t want to delay due to the tight timeline of this funding opportunity.

http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/Coalitions/CommunityTransformationGrantsInfo/tabid/200/Default.aspx

We strongly encourage you to review the info on the CTG website and listen to the audio or read the transcript of CDC’s informational call from 5/25. You can find the audio and transcript of their call at: http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation/resources/index.htm#a5. Our call is not intended to repeat this information—we will present a very brief overview, but then focus on networking and sharing of experiences and ideas. We will hear from representatives of the current CPPW projects in Illinois, Connecticut, and California, describing their projects and the collaborative efforts behind them.

Key Note about this Opportunity: CDC says: “Applicants are encouraged to collaborate and coordinate with other potential applicants within a jurisdiction area in order to submit the strongest and most collaborative application. This can be facilitated by indicating permission for CDC to share your intention to apply in the Letter of Intent due June 6th. Those giving permission will have their organization, area applying to serve, and contact information added to the CTG website. This information will be organized by state to facilitate local connections and collaboration.”

Submitting a Letter of Intent (due Monday, June 6) is a critical strategy to make your interest known to other parties in your jurisdiction. The way the CTGs are structured, they intend to only fund one proposal for a given jurisdictional area, so a broad collaboration will be most likely to succeed.

Best,

Megan E. Renner

United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC)

Phone: (202) 367-1132

Direct/Cell: (301) 807-4963

Fax: (202) 367-2132

mrenner@usbreastfeeding.org

www.usbreastfeeding.org

The mission of the United States Breastfeeding Committee is to improve the Nation’s health by working collaboratively to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. Donate today!

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Categories : Professionals

A Private Place For Nursing Mothers: Legal Requirement Is Easy To Meet

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Monday, May 23rd, 2011

When the nurse practitioner at the solo pediatrics practice of Gerald Calnen, MD, needed space to pump milk for her baby, she went into an exam room, closing the door at times set aside for her.

“We put a little sign up indicating that the room was occupied, and people respected that,” said Dr. Calnen, president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. “It was not a problem. Most medical practices have enough flexibility to set aside time for this during the course of the day. And making allowances for a woman to express her milk during the day can have an incredible impact on morale. Most are very appreciative.”

 

Read Rest of Article- Amednews

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Categories : Working Moms

11 T-Shirts to Boast Your Breastfeeding Status

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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

I know people love to accuse breastfeeders of being crazy-obsessed, but when you have to bust your butt to accomplish something that, while recommended as the best by every known medical source out there, yet is still really tough and uncommon, you frankly are going to be pretty proud of yourself (and should be!). Add in having to fight for the right to even serve a milky dinner to your baby while eating dinner with your family, and it’s no surprise that a lot of women who persevere become passionate about the issue.

 

Read Rest of Article-The Stir

 

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Categories : Lighter Side

Get This Woman Some Laughing Gas!

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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

But part of the reason the childbirth debate has become so polarized is the dearth of any middle ground between full-on epidural anesthesia and nothing at all. (Unless you count breathing exercises as a pain-control measure.) Lately, though, a number of midwives have been pushing for a third way. They are advocating that more delivery rooms offer nitrous oxide, the inhaled anesthetic more commonly known as laughing gas, familiar to many of us from dental procedures (and, perhaps, ill-advised experiments with Reddi-wip cans).Why are midwives—a group that in this country is usually associated with natural childbirth—leading the charge to bring a new drug to laboring women?

 

Read Rest of Article-Slate

 

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Categories : General

Tanya Lieberman, IBCLC: My presentation on milk banking

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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to the physicians at the pediatric office where I work on donor milk banking.

Please go to Tanya’s wonderful to read and see her presentation.

The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog

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