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Human Milk Composition

Understand lactational pharmacology and how to evaluate medication safety for breastfeeding families.

$14.00 USD

Communication: Having Meaningful Conversations

Review the pathways and common barriers to communication, and learn how to improve your listening and conversational skills.

$14.00 USD

Milk Banking: What Is It? Why Use It?

In this course you will learn the history of wet-nursing to milk banking, the benefits of pasteurized donor human milk, and the processes involved in providing safe human milk for infants. 

$14.00 USD

Medications and Human Milk

Understand lactational pharmacology and how to evaluate medication safety for breastfeeding families.

$14.00 USD

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

This review of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, commonly referred to as PMADs, can be used as a guide for you and the families you work with to better understand common mental health complications associated with pregnancy and birth and how to best address them.

$14.00 USD

Seeing Yellow: Understanding Hyperbilirubinemia

This goal of this course is to help you understand bilirubin, causes of high bilirubin levels in the newborn and how to treat it.

$14.00 USD

Baby-Friendly and the Code

Learn about the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and the Code. Dr. Philipp shares practical tips that can be used to elicit change in the hospital setting.

$14.00 USD

Twenty Years Baby-Friendly: Changing A Culture

Dr. Philipp reviews policy changes and new programs implemented over twenty years since her hospital’s Baby-Friendly designation. As she says, “Cut a cake and celebrate.”

$14.00 USD

Infant Formula Recall and Crisis: What’s the Scoop and Who’s to Blame?

Dive into the bacteria, Cronobacter sakazakii, and the problems it causes if it finds its way into powder infant formula. Learn why a recall at one manufacturing plant in Michigan led to a nationwide shortage of infant formula and why the crisis disproportionately impacted poor and Black families.

$14.00 USD

Baby Café USA

In this course you will learn about the Baby Cafe model and how it came to be a national model of support for breastfeeding women.  Lucia Jenkins, COO and founder, will also review how you can start a Baby Cafe in your community.

$14.00 USD

Skin-to-Skin Contact: The First Hour and Beyond

Learn about the basics of skin-to-skin contact after birth, the benefits and how to practice it safely.

$14.00 USD

Ethics in Lactation Care

Learn ethical principles and common challenges faced by lactation care specialists. Learn about misfeasance, malfeasance and more. Course concludes with a discussion between two IBCLCs on how to handle some ethical dilemmas.

$14.00 USD

Ten Tips on the Ten Steps: Baby-Friendly Highlights for Travelers

For hospitals on the Baby-Friendly journey, it can be a challenge to be sure that all staff, including "travelers," receive the education needed to meet Baby-Friendly criteria. This course offers a solid foundation for those new to Baby-Friendly practices.  Students will receive a certificate upon completion of the course.

$10.00 USD