2008 WALC Breastfeeding Conference

 
     
  Mark your calendar and tell your colleagues!  Our upcoming conference brings together speakers you've requested and information you've asked for.  If you assist mothers and babies with breastfeeding, these topics will help you in your daily practice.  
     
 
  • James McKenna, PhD- Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, considered to be the leading authority on mother-infant co-sleeping and breastfeeding, author of numerous papers and several books on the subject.
 
 
  • Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC- Lactation consultant in private practice in New York City, editor of the new textbook, Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants.
 
 
  • Lisa Brock, BSN, IBCLC- Lactation Consultant and staff RN in NICU at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and Clinics in Milwaukee.
 

 

   

Conference topics include:

  • The role of history and culture in opinions about infant sleep
Radisson Paper Valley Hotel
333 W. College Ave.
Appleton, WI 54911
1-800-333-3333
 
  • Effective strategies to facilitate breastfeeding the NICU and after discharge
  • Ultrasound study of tongue-tie and sucking skills--documentation of changes after treatment
   
  • What SIDS epidemiologists reveal about bedsharing--when it is safe, when it is not
  • Minimally invasive treatment for posterior tongue-tie
   
  • The non-latching infant--strategies to assist in both in-patient and out-patient settings

 

 

 2008 WALC Conference Brochure

 
     
 

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA category 1 credits for physicians.  Full conference brochure will be mailed in January and available on the website in early December.