I am committed to staying updated with the latest findings and practices in my field, continuously expanding my knowledge. To achieve this, I regularly attend industry-relevant lectures. Below are the lectures I have attended.
Gold Learning
- Nekisha Killings – Approaching Care When You’re Barely There: Reimagining Empathy When You’ve Got Nothing Left to Give
- Shacchee Khare Baweja – Skilled Lactation Support in Suboptimal and Low Resource Settings: Onsite Mentoring as a Game Changer
- Alyssa Schnell – ReLATCHtation: Transitioning the Exclusively Bottle-fed Baby to Nursing
- Michal Ann Young – Immunology of Human Milk – the Magic Ingredient
- Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga – Effect of the Spray Drying Process, High Pressures, and Radiation on the Nutritional Quality of Human Milk Muswamba Mwamba – What Role Do Fathers’ Cultural Experiences Play in the Decision to Support Breastfeeding?
- Naomi Hull – Importance of Peer Counselling and the Impact of the Pandemic on Breastfeeding Dyads in Australia
- Wendy Ingman – The Biology of the Mammary Gland in Lactation
- Marie Zahorick – Medications and Mothers’ Minds: Psychopharmacology for Lactating Mothers
- Diane DiTomasso – Expected Weight Changes After Birth for Full-Term, Breastfed Newborns
- Rue Khosa – It Takes a Village: Understanding the Role of and Integrating Extended Family in the 4th Trimester.
- Karleen Gribble – COVID-19 Guidance for Maternal and Newborn Care: Who’s Doing What and Why
- Decalie Brown – Size Does Matter: Large Lactating Breasts Are Important!
- Amal Omer-Salim – Global Perspectives on the Warm Chain of Support for Breastfeeding
- Johanna Sargeant – At-Breast Supplementation: Practical Tips for Using a Variety of Supplemental Feeding Tube Devices
- Jarold “Tom” Johnston Jr. – Using Evidence to Develop Clinical Lactation Skills
- Nastassia Davis – When It’s Time to Let Go… Stories of Weaning
- Lina Mazzoni – Breastfeeding as a Prevention Strategy for Speech Language Disorders
- Hope K. Lima, Karin I. Evans – Lactation Support for Parents with Anorexia Nervosa
- Shondra Mattos, Bryna Sampey – Back to Baseline: Normal Anatomy & Physiology of Infant Feeding
- Smaranda Nay – Talking to Babies: Basic Communication Skills for Lactating Parents and Healthcare Specialists
- Divya S. Parikh, Rachel Walker – Breastmilk Fat Profile: Implications for Clinical Practice
- Robin Kaplan – Overcoming Challenges When Providing Virtual Support to Breast/Chestfeeding Families
- Panel Discussion 2021 – Emerging Trends in Virtual Lactation Support
- Liz Brooks – Using a Cool Head When You’re on the Hot Seat: Ethical and Legal Topics That Make Us Sweat, and How to Avoid Getting Burned Annette Leary – Interactive Case Review: Prioritization of Care
- Kathryn Stagg – Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets: Supporting Families During Their Breastfeeding Journey
- Sejal Fichadia – A Comprehensive Look at Breastfeeding Ecology: Infants’ Innate Behaviors
- Lisa Marasco – The Mysterious Milk Ejection Reflex
- Kay Hoover – What the Books Don’t Teach You: Tips and Tricks for the Lactation Professional
- Laurel Wilson – Caring for Our Community During COVID-19: How Perinatal/Lactation Workers Can Protect Themselves, Their Clients, and Their Business
- Laurel Wilson – Unraveling the Mysteries of Human Milk: The Fascinating Role of Neohormones, Epigenetics, the Microbiome and More!
Microbirth School
- Understanding the Infant Microbiome
Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust
- Down’s syndrome – A lived perspective
- Antenatal screening
- Bereavement
- Stop Smoking and Heathy Weight Management
- Newborn Feeding
- Diabetes Update
- Eclampsia
- Hypertensive Disorders
- Sepsis
- Matenal Collapse
- Neonatal Resuscitation
Livewell Southwest
- Lyndsey Hookway – How misinterpretation of infant behaviour leads to premature cessation of breastfeeding.
- Professor Amy Brown, PHD – Factors affecting early cessation of breastfeeding, and the impact of on maternal well-being.
- Dr Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PHD IBCLC FAPA – A new paradigm for depression in breastfeeding mothers.
- Fiona Lang-Sharpe, IBCLC RLC CLD CLE – Right here, right now: Managing post-birth interventions with holistic care to improve breastfeeding outcomes.
- Dr Suzanne Colson, BA RM RN MSc PHD – Biological Nurturing
- Dr Kerstin Unnas Moberg, MD PHD – How oxytocin helps with breastfeeding.
Association of Breastfeeding Mothers
- Annual conferences 2019, 2020
NHS Devon and NHS Southwest
- I’m fine – How to enable parents to disclose they need help, to risk assess and make informed decisions with families about the next steps.
iLactation
- Talking to children about breastfeeding: the need for ANTE antenatal education
- Under One Sky: Intimate Encounters with Moms and Babies by a Breastfeeding Consultant and Nurse
- An implementation algorithm to improve skin-to-skin practice in the first hour after birth
- Why milk matters
- Breastfeeding Uncovered: who really decides how we feed our babies?
- Why is breastfeeding still so controversial: a US perspective
- The Big Letdown
- Open my eyes
- Vitamin D: Mothers, Babies and You – a Global perspective
- Protecting vulnerable neonates by using stored colostrum expressed antentally
- Stem Cells in Breastmilk – recent advances
- Using the Hazelbaker assessment tool for lingual frenulum function.
- Supporting breastfeeding: the WHO code and so much more!
- The importance of vitamin T
- Simplifying breastfeeding: The first 36 hours
- The mother-baby-dance : How mothers and babies thing, why this matters.
- Recertification: what every IBCLC needs to know.
- Sleep locations and Breastfeeding outcomes
Association of Birth and Baby Professionals
- Professor Helen Ball – Understanding infant sleep : safety, development and parent’s concerns.
- Lynn Timms – Normal Tongue function, Recognition and effect of tongue tie on infant feeding, How to maintain and maximise lactation when baby has a tongue tie.
- Felicity Bertin – Birth trauma and its impact on breastfeeding, when tongue tie isn’t a tongue tie, The benefits of Cranial Osteopathy.
- Dr Jack Newman, MD – Controversies in Breastfeeding, Colic in the breastfed baby, Effects of birthing practices on baby, Breastfeeding the premature baby.
Real Baby Milk
- Infant Feeding Conference 2019
- Peer support and Tongue Tie
- Bump to Baby and Peer Support in Pregnancy
Maternity Nurse Conference
- Dr Mike Thomson – Allergies in Infants
- Clare Byam-Cook – Breastfeeding for Maternity Nurses
- Gillian Ryder FSID – The Foundation for the Study of infant deaths seminar
- Sioned Hilton – pumping
Millpond Childrens Sleep Clinc
- Helping parents to solve their children’s sleep problems. A workshop for professionals in the community.