Tips on How to Support Mothers
Clinicians play pivotal roles as potential supporters or inhibitors of breastfeeding. A scripting guide, which includes suggestions for how clinicians can more knowledgeably interact with expectant mothers who plan to breastfeed as well as provide breastfeeding mothers with additional reassuring information can be found here.
Separate subsections covering weight loss management/supplementation, hyperbilirubinemia, working with late preterm infants, and infant formula marketing in healthcare facilities are elsewhere in this CME.
View complete table in a pdf format here.
More resources:
Breastfeeding positions illustrated in Course 1
BiliTooltm helps providers assess the risks toward the development of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns over 35 weeks gestational age.
Preventing SIDS information from healthychildren.org
Breastfeeding support by Zipcode can by found at Zipmilk.org
Dietary guidelines for mothers (Resource 1) USDA (Resource 2) National Institutes of Health
