Description
Medela’s Breastfeeding & Lactation Symposium 2023 featured a world-class agenda for healthcare professionals keen to learn about the latest scientific evidence in the field of human milk and lactation towards improving the quality of lactation care and infant feeding.
The agenda included the following lectures:
- Lactation as a biological system: The dynamics of human milk composition (Prof. Lars Bode, USA)
- Lactation as a biological system: The importance of dose (Prof. Donna Geddes, Australia)
- A call to action: Improving human milk & breastfeeding outcomes by prioritizing effective initiation of lactation (Prof. Diane Spatz, USA)
- Initiation of lactation: Prophylactic lactation support as Standard of Care for mothers of NICU infants (Dr Rebecca Hoban, Canada)
- Improving survival & outcomes for preterm infants through optimizing early maternal breast milk: A national quality improvement toolkit from BAPM (Dr Sarah Bates)
- Prioritizing own mother‘s milk in the neonatal unit: Need for standardized metrics that capture lactation and infant feeding (Prof. Neena Modi)
This webinar features the lecture of Prof. Donna Geddes: Lactation as a Biological System: The Importance of Dose.
Professor Geddes is internationally renowned for her novel work with ultrasound imaging that has revolutionized the our understanding of the anatomy of the lactating breast, milk ejection and blood flow, as well as the infant’s sucking technique, suck-swallow-breathe co-ordination, gastric emptying and body composition of both the term and preterm infant. She has since expanded her range of research interests to include the synthesis and removal of milk from the breast, the composition of human milk and its impact on the growth and body composition of breastfed infants, the investigation of HM metabolites and the search for biomarkers that are indicative of breast dysfunction.
This course is CPD (Continuing Professional Development) certified.
Objectives
Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the difference between the concentration of a human milk and the dose of a component.
- Provide examples of 2 factors that influence the dose of a specific human milk component to the infant.
- Articulate the impact of human milk components on infant growth and development of body composition.
- Describe the concept of chronobiology and the impact this has on human milk sampling and dose to the infant.
- Provide rationale for why measurement of human milk fat content should be measured over 24-hr rather in a single sample.
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate The importance of dose CPD
Learning credits
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