Past Conference – 2017

Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115

Audience and Objectives

This conference offers community healthcare professionals (lactation consultants, public health nurses, clinic nurses, mental health professionals, dieticians, physicians, midwives, doulas, and childbirth educators) an opportunity to learn about breastfeeding/chestfeeding challenges and issues experienced by parents after leaving the hospital or beyond the first few days after birth.

At the end of the 2017 conference, you will be able to:

• List three ways in which traumatic birth physiologically affects lactation
• Identify three things that can occur during a birth that increase the likelihood it will be experienced as a trauma
• Describe three things to attend to during the telling of a birth story that can aid you in helping a client to process her traumatic birth
• Name manifestations of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) that may surface in adulthood as triggers or personal traits.
• Discuss the impact of sexual abuse on the childbearing person during pregnancy, labor, postpartum, and infant feeding.
• Describe the problem-solving role of the postpartum doula or lactation professional optimizing the feeding experience between parent and baby.
• Explain post-traumatic growth that can result from successful chest/breastfeeding.
• Examine how trauma is passed down from generation to generation.
• Communicate how intergenerational trauma impacts parenting practices, specifically breastfeeding.
• Describe how best to serve families with complex trauma histories.
• State how scientific evidence can be used to make practice changes to improve breastfeeding outcomes.
• Discuss one new research finding that you can use to improve breastfeeding outcomes.