Happy IBCLC week!  Thanks for all you do and for your support of La Leche League of WI.

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A sampling of titles listed below; much more on the website!

LLL’s  Sweet Sleep & The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Titles addressing diversity:  Breasting, Social Justice and Equity, Free to Breastfeed: Voices of Black Mothers, Lactation Management: Strategies for Working with African-American Moms

Plus children’s books, books for families and clinical titles!!

Hello,

I recently became a CLC.  I am looking for supervised hours and experience so that I can better help the moms and babies I work with and eventually possibly become an IBCLC.  Are there any IBCLC in the Madison area that would be willing to work with me?  I feel fairly comfortable in the academic side, but lack hands on experience in lactation counseling.  I hope to get some more exposure at work, but it will be rather infrequent and nearly always complex situations.

Thanks for your consideration,

Therese Breunig, RD, CLC

Friday, January 18, 2019, 9:30 a.m.

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I am an IBCLC providing inpatient and outpatient Lactation Services at a community hospital. My hospital was approached by a person wishing to become an IBCLC. She is not a Recognized Health Professional or from a Recognised Support Counselor Organization. She was told by IBLCE that she could follow Pathway 1. She is enrolled at a Technical College and in the process of taking the 14 required Health Science Subjects. She has completed a 90 hour on-line Lactation Specific Education.  I guess I’m looking for some direction as to where to begin and how to provide the “Supervised Clinical Practice”.  Are there any hospital based IBCLC’s out there who have been involved in this kind of activity or any IBCLC’s that have followed this route to achieved their IBCLC.  You can email me: Lawanda287@charter.net

Susan Lindekugel, RN, IBCLC,RLC

Hello everyone! Below is info for a survey for US-based IBCLCs who work for hospitals, either in an inpatient setting or an outpatient hospital-associated clinic setting. This is a voluntary survey. Please feel free to share it.

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Greetings,

My name is Stephanie Elliott and I am an IBCLC and student researcher in the School of Public Health at Portland State University under the advisement of Dr. Julia Goodman. As a part of my honors thesis I am conducting a study about risk/benefit communication in lactation consulting.

I am seeking US-based IBCLCs who work for hospitals, either in an inpatient setting or an outpatient hospital-associated clinic setting, to complete this survey. The survey will be anonymous and take less than ten minutes to complete.

If you fit these criteria please consider completing my survey to help establish an understanding of how lactation consultants are emphasizing risks and benefits when they counsel patients. Participation in this research is voluntary and you may discontinue the survey at any time. This survey is anonymous and the study will collect no identifying information linking you to the survey. There are no known risks associated with participation in this survey.

There is no direct benefit to you in participating in this research but this research will benefit the field of lactation consultation and mother-baby care by increasing an understanding of existing counseling methods in lactation practice. If you have any questions about this research please contact selliott@pdx.edu.

To complete the survey follow this link:
https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bx8ccEnbnXjoYip

https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bx8ccEnbnXjoYip

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LLL of WI Continuing Education Event

Addressing Inequalities in Lactation Care

November 1 & 2, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza-Milwaukee West

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Kimberly Seals Allers  Journalist and Author: The Big Let Down

and

Camie Jae Goldhammer MSW, LICSW, IBCLC (Sisseton-Wahpeton)

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See you in November!

Samantha Metko RDN, IBCLC

LLL of WI Co-Coordinator of  Events  

2018 Christopher Blaesing Lactation Conference: Human Milk: Marvels of the Medicinal Microbiome

This year’s conference will be held Tuesday October 30, 2018.

Please check out the flyer! Share this info with anyone that may be interested.

This event is geared toward OB/GYN physicians, neonatal nurse practitioners, registered nurses and lactation professionals. An application for continuing education credits is in progress.

Registration is now open at www.maxishare.com/conferences