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Paid Research Study for Postpartum Depression

This research is funded by NIH, so you may want to share the information:

 

Dear North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition,

 

Hello, I am Kelly Moulton. I would like to obtain permission to post a Recruitment Flyer for a research study for women who are between 4-26 weeks postpartum on your website or ask you to send it out to your members via your listserv. As you likely know, perinatal depression can be quite debilitating for women. However, women who experience it are not often identified and therefore do not receive the support they need. The current assessments are not sufficient to reliably identify perinatal depression. We are a company that has over 15 years of experience with survey development. The study we are conducting is designed to validate a new perinatal depression measure that will improve upon many of the pitfalls of current perinatal depression assessments. The study is almost complete, with almost 800 women having participated. We need to finish out the study and hope to recruit local women to help us and also give them a voice pertaining to perinatal depression. Can you help us get the word out about our study?

Thanks,

 Kelly

 

Kelly Moulton, M.Ed.

Research Assistant

Telesage, Inc.

PO Box 750

Chapel Hill, NC  27514

(413) 387-9843

ILCA Announces Exciting Employment Opportunity

October 28, 2011

ILCA has an exciting employment opportunity for a member seeking a creative, short-term project that gives back to your profession! The position is World Breastfeeding Week Coordinator: develop copy and work with the office to coordinate production of the 2012 WBW Kit and related materials (US$3,500 salary).

Qualifications: Applicants will have been a financial member (dues-paying) of ILCA for a minimum of 3 years. Applicants should have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and be computer literate. Applicants should also be willing to work within the established production schedule so that these extremely popular materials can be available in a timely manner. You can read the full Job Description for this position on the ILCA website under What’s New at ILCA or by clicking here.

If this opportunity sounds right for you, please forward your curriculum vitae and letter of interest, explaining your qualifications and desire to serve in this exciting role, along with 2-3 brief writing samples to ILCA’s Executive Coordinator, Vicki Hobbs, at vicki@ilca.org. The deadline for submitting applications is November 18th.

Thank you for considering a leadership role in ILCA!

Sincerely,

Cathy Carother's Signature
Cathy Carothers, BLA, IBCLC, FILCA
ILCA President 2010-2012
 

A Day with Dr. Thomas Hale – Medications and Mother’s Milk

Save the Date!

Coming to Greenville SC on March 9, 2012

A Day with Dr. Thomas Hale, Medications and Mother’s Milk

8-8:30 Registration and Welcome (light breakfast)

8:30-10 Control and Production of Human Milk

10-10:15 Break

10:15-11 Using Medications in Breastfeeding Moms

11-12 Pharmacotherapy in Breastfeeding Patients

12-1 Lunch (provided)

1-2 Antidepressants

2-2:15 Break

2:15-3 Candida and Mastitis

3-4 Radioactive and Radio-Contrast Drugs

4-4:30 Q&A

4:30 Wrap up and Evals

Conference Fee: $134

Early Bird: $119 by February 12, 2011

Non-refundable

Hilton Garden Hotel

108 Carolina Point Parkway

Greenville , SC 29605

(864) 284-0111

Conference Rate: $109 per night

Accreditation:

Lactation Consultants : This program has applied for 6.0 L-CERPs by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.

Nurses: This continuing nursing education activity was applied for by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation, for 6 contact hours.

Pharmacists: This program has been applied for 6 live contact hours through ACPE and the South Carolina Pharmacy Association

Space is limited:

For more information or to reserve a seat please contact Mandy Schaub (864) 675-4215

mandy_schaub@bshsi.org

Full brochure available soon.

Change in Meeting Date!

Don’t forget – TBA is meeting the second Tuesday in November – the 8th – NOT tomorrow.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but the Advanced Breastfeeding Core Course is being taught on the first Tuesday.

Mary

 Mary L. Overfield, MN, RN, IBCLC – Chair

Triangle Breastfeeding Alliance

11608 Rutledge Bay

Raleigh, NC 27614

919 847-4903

mary_overfield@yahoo.com

FREE—–Learn and Earn L-CERP from ILCA Webinars

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Learn and Earn through ILCA Live Webinars

Earn CERPs and nursing contact hours!

 

Robert Lane, Cathy Carothers, June Maker

ILCA is excited to announce a new free webinar. Sign up now to reserve your spot. We look forward to seeing you online!

Monday, November 14, 2011 at 3:00 – 4:00pm Eastern Time

Sneak Preview of ILCA’s Interactive Presentation Training Sessions by Robert Lane, Cathy Carothers and June Maker

Registerfor the free webinar by November 10, 2011 to reserve your seat.

ILCA has teamed up with Aspire Communications to bring you a presentation skills training series that offers a revolutionary perspective on public speaking and transforms your existing presentation materials into a flexible, media-rich portfolio. This special way of using PowerPoint, called relational presentation, gives presenters complete freedom to randomly select slides while speaking, as though moving around within a website. Perhaps you’ve already seen some of our members using these techniques during conferences and have wondered how to get that same professional edge for yourself. Here’s a great opportunity to do so, at specially negotiated rates of 20% to 45% below regular attendance.

This free sneak preview showcases the skills to be taught and helps you decide which tracks are right for your needs. Robert Lane will host the webinar. He will be joined by ILCA’s president, Cathy Carothers, and Dr. June Maker, a professor at the University of Arizona, who will talk about how they use these presentation techniques in consultancy, governmental training and education. Everyone who attends will receive a special promotional code during the webinar that reduces your registration fees for the training series. The code also makes you eligible for other valuable perks such as a free, full-color relational presentation textbook (while they last). Attendance is limited to 500 people on a first come basis. So reserve a spot today before all seats disappear.

No CERPs or contact hours in nursing are available for this program.

Presentation Skills Training Series

Watch for more information on how to register for sessions in the comprehensive course, which will begin in January, 2012. You can attend as many or as few sessions as you like, depending on your learning goals. Whether just getting started with public speaking, or already a seasoned professional, you’ll find sessions that take speaking skills to a new level. Each session contains hands-on exercises and post-session assignments that help you quickly expand your growing, personalized presentation portfolio. The further you go with sessions, the richer and more diverse your portfolio becomes until you have a powerful tool that supports full visual interactions with viewers.

Some of the topics to be covered include:

  • Planning effective talks
  • Everything to know about building PowerPoint presentations
  • Presentation design and delivery advice from the experts
  • The many GOOD things you can do with text
  • Working with tables, graphs and Smart Art
  • Creating visual content without needing a degree in graphic arts
  • Working with pictures and shapes
  • Understanding the legal rules and regulations for using pictures and media in your presentations
  • Teaching, sales and persuasion techniques
  • Working with media such as video and PDF files in presentations
  • Creating meaningful animations that are both “cool” and helpful
  • Building practical navigation styles that let you display content on demand
  • Strategies for linking all your slide shows together to create a comprehensive presentation portfolio

More information is available on the Aspire website at www.aspirecommunications.com.

Have Questions? Check out the Webinar FAQ page for answers to your questions. If you have any other questions about the webinar, please email webinars@ilca.org or call the ILCA office at 919-861-5577 or toll free at 1-888-452-2478.

Looking for additional opportunities to earn CERPs/contact hours? Please visit our Continuing Education page for more information.

International Lactation Consultant Association
2501 Aerial Center Parkway · Suite 103 · Morrisville, NC 27560 · USA
Email: info@ilca.org · Phone: 919-861-5577 · Fax: 919-459-2075

Possible Southeast Regional Conference in August 201

Hi everyone,

 In Memphis we are considering moving our typical WBW first Wednesday Breastfeeding Update to later in the month (now World Breastfeeding Month), in the hopes of attracting both a more regional audience as well as nationally renown speakers to our city – the epicenter both statistically and geographically of poverty, high infant mortality and obesity, and low breastfeeding rates. 

 What will help us as we move forward is to know this:

 If we are able to pull off such a regional event with nationally recognized speakers, will you try to send some of your staff and attend  yourselves? 

 Please respond to my email at julieware2@bellsouth.net with your thoughts.

 Thanks in advance for your consideration!

Julie Ware, MD

Chair Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition

TN AAP Co-Chapter Breastfeeding Coordinator

901-331-6313 cell

Human Milk in the NICU: Translating the Evidence into Practice

The Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health at Forsyth Medical Center is sponsoring the following conference:

Title:                 Human Milk in the NICU: Translating the Evidence into Practice

Speaker:           Paula Meier. RN, DNSc, FAAN

Date:                November 29th

Location:          Forsyth Medical Center Conference Center

Time:                8:15 am to 5:15pm

Cost:                $75

This program provides 6 RN contact hours, 0.6 A.C.N.M, and 6.0 dietitian CPE Category II hours. 

For more information please see the attachment.

Thank you in advance for sharing this information. 

Polly Sisk, PhD, RD, IBCLC

Nov 29 Preemie+ Meier Gardner (3)

 

NICU Dietitian, Lactation Consultant, Forsyth Medical Center

Adjunct Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Winston Salem, NC

6 Totally Selfish Reasons to Breastfeed

breastfeeding momWe hear a lot about all the benefits of breastfeeding for babies: how a mother’s milk adapts to her baby’s changing needs; how it’s rich in nutrients; how it contains antibodies that protect infants from everything from asthma to diabetes to obesity to SIDS; how it promotes bonding — and, heck, may even make kids smarter!

So, yeah, there are a ton of selfless reasons to breastfeed. But you know what? There are also a lot of totally selfish reasons to breastfeed, too.

For instance? Well, let’s see …

 

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SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment

Despite a major decrease in the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) since the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its recommendation in 1992 that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position, this decline has plateaued in recent years. Concurrently, other causes of sudden unexpected infant death that occur during sleep (sleep-related deaths), including suffocation, asphyxia, and entrapment, and ill-defined or unspecified causes of death have increased in incidence, particularly since the AAP published its last statement on SIDS in 2005. It has become increasingly important to address these other causes of sleep-related infant death. Many of the modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors for SIDS and suffocation are strikingly similar. The AAP, therefore, is expanding its recommendations from focusing only on SIDS to focusing on a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS. The recommendations described in this policy statement include supine positioning, use of a firm sleep surface, breastfeeding, room-sharing without bed-sharing, routine immunizations, consideration of using a pacifier, and avoidance of soft bedding, overheating, and exposure to tobacco smoke, alcohol, and illicit drugs. The rationale for these recommendations is discussed in detail in the accompanying “Technical Report—SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment,” which is included in this issue of Pediatrics (www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/128/5/e1341).

via SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment.

Study: Stem cells in breastmilk be “reprogrammed” into other cell types

I’ve written a few times about the stem cells identified in breastmilk.  The last time I wrote about this the open question was whether the stem cells behave like embryonic stem cells – able to be ‘reprogrammed’ into new tissue.

 

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