How Dietitians can support breastfeeding in a clinical setting and an overview of weaning webinar recordings

Access the recordings from the Paediatric Specialist Group: How Dietitians can support breastfeeding in a clinical setting and an overview of weaning

Recording running time approx. 2 hours 15 minutes

You will be sent an email which includes the hyperlink to the resource page with the recordings and certificate of attendance.

Denise King, Clinical lead Community Paediatric Dietitian and IBCLC, Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust:

Jennifer Ashcroft (MNutr, MSc, IBCLC) Specialist Paediatric Dietitian and Lactation consultant, Ulster Hospital Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Summary of Denise and Jenny's talk: The first session will include a quick glance at the physiology of the breast followed by information on positioning and attachment at the breast and how to assess if this is effective or not. The second part of this session will include information on how to support a breastfeeding parent with milk production if the infant is not feeding at the breast – e.g expressing and storage of breastmilk.

The second session will include information on when and how to supplement a breastfed infant, what supplement to use and how to monitor the effectiveness of this.

Mary Fewtrell, (MNutr, MSc, IBCLC) Specialist Paediatric Dietitian and Lactation consultant, Ulster Hospital Belfast, Northern Ireland.