Pediatric Nurse Practitioners are highly trained professionals. Nevertheless, I was asked to present "Unlatched: Teaching Child Development to Extend Breastfeeding Duration" at their annual conference. I was delighted to see that PNPs were eager to learn about ways that a child's development impact breastfeeding duration. And most exciting, these PNPs will change their practice based on what they learned at this workshop.
Workshop Objectives:
- Describe Dr. T. Berry
Brazelton’s theory of child development.
- Describe developmental
events and two changes in breast milk production (birth to one year) that
are often misunderstood by mothers to be a breastfeeding problem.
- List four educational
resources that can be used to enhance mother’s knowledge of normal developmental
events and breast changes during the first year of a baby’s life.
