Building Bridges: The Power of Partnerships in Advancing Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding Support
Research shows that most parents want to provide their baby with human milk—over 90% start breastfeeding. Yet within 48 hours, exclusive breastfeeding rates drop sharply, and by six months, they decline even further.
A key reason? Gaps in coordination and continuity of care among providers, which lead to gaps in the support parents need to meet their feeding goals.
Learn to create the kind of meaningful partnerships between healthcare providers and lactation professionals in your own setting that lead to successful breastfeeding outcomes! This course offers actionable strategies for creating supportive webs of connection between healthcare providers and lactation care providers so both can offer the integrated, coordinated lactation support parents and their babies need to thrive.
Robin Kaplan, M.ED, IBCLC, FNC, Founder and Owner of San Diego Breastfeeding Center, shares specific options for creating referral systems and partnerships between IBCLCs and other lactation support services, tailored for:
- Hospitals
- OBGYNs/midwives
- Pediatricians
- Mental health care providers
- PTs and OTs
- Local lactation coalitions
- County health departments
Kaplan’s suggestions are sure to spark creativity about how to create powerful connections in your own setting!
Accreditation Recognition:
- 2 Nursing Contact Hours (through March 21, 2028)
- 2-L-CERPs (through December 31, 2025)*
* If completed by December 31, 2025. If completed after December 31, 2025, application for Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) has been submitted to the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners®. For more information on this change, please see our blog.
Notice: Due to IBLCE® changes, CERP recognition and domains after December 31, 2025 might be slightly different from previously approved recognition.
Lactation Education Resources has been accepted by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) as a Preferred Provider for the listed Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) programme. Determination of CERPs eligibility or CERPs Provider status does not imply IBLCE’s endorsement or assessment of education quality. As a Preferred Provider, Lactation Education Resources attests that it complies with the WHO Code and subsequent WHA resolutions.
Price: $30.00