Education & Training for Professionals

Professional Education Program
The Breastfeeding Coalition of Palm Beach County has developed a unique educational program designed for health care professionals and staff in private medical offices and hospitals...
Physicians, Nurses, Midwives, Nurse Practioners, Medical Assistants, Nutritionists, Dieticians,
or any other staff member who is interested in helping new mothers successfully initiate breastfeeding and provide ongoing support.

IBCLC instructors will come to your office to deliver breastfeeding training using
The Curriculum in Support of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding:
An 18 Hour Interdisciplinary Breastfeeding Management Course for the US

This evidence-based 18 hour course is divided into 1 – 1.5 hour segments that can be scheduled individually, or combined for longer sessions. Topics can be selected as needed, and do not have
to be scheduled in any particular order.

Recommended Books for Professionals Best Medicine: Human Milk in the NICU, Nancy Wright, MD, IBCLC; Jane Morton, MD; Jae Kim, MD, PhD Best Practices for Expressing, Storing and Handling Human Milk, HMBANA, F. Jones and Mary Rose Tully Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, Ruth Lawrence, MD & Robert Lawrence, MD Breastfeeding An Adopted Baby and Relactation, Elizabeth Hormann Breastfeeding and Diseases - A Reference Guide, E. Stephen Buescher, MD and Susan W. Hatcher, RN, BSN, IBCLC Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, J. Riordan Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians - AAP and ACOG Breastfeeding Medicine, Journal of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby, Gwen Gotsch Clinical Therapy in Breastfeeding Patients, Thomas Hale, PhD and Pamela Berens, MD Clinics in Human lactation: Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for Depression in New Mother, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC Defining Your Own Success, Diana West Lactation Management, Maureen Hoag Dann, PNP, IBCLC Medications and Mothers' Milk 2008, Thomas Hale, PhD Pocket Guide to Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, J. Riordan Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfed Infants, Catherine Watson Genna Textbook of Human Lactation,Thomas Hale, PhD & Peter Hartmann, PhD The Breastfeeding Answer Book (LLLI), Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie Stock The Breastfeeding Atlas Book and CD-ROM (4th Edition), Kay Hoover and Barbara Wilson-Clay