Yeah, Baby, You're Expected to Do Both: Helping Breastfeeding Families Navigate Using Bottles
For today’s families, the choice to feed their babies human milk often includes feeding their baby both at the chest or breast and from a bottle. To provide effective support, today’s lactation care providers must be prepared to help parents — and babies — learn both skills.
You’ll leave this class confident in your ability to support parents and babies as they transition back and forth between direct feeding and bottle feeding, whether they are introducing the bottle to a newborn or helping an older baby who is struggling to accept a bottle. You’ll learn to:
Understand the historical context. How did pumps and bottles become part of the lactation landscape, what factors and messages are today’s parents navigating, and how can that knowledge help you provide the best care?
Provide bottle feeding counseling that protects lactation. Help families evaluate bottles and nipples and advise them on how to provide bottles in a lactation-supportive way, so they meet their long-term feeding goals.
Work with bottle refusal. Learn what to say (and what not to say) to parents whose older baby is struggling to take a bottle, and stock your toolkit with a huge array of tips and techniques to offer.
Your instructor, Margaret Sabo Wills, BA, IBCLC, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, a warm, empathetic approach, and the lens of current research. You’ll leave this course feeling like you’ve shared time with a wonderful, supportive mentor for your journey.
Accreditation Recognition:
- 2 Nursing Contact Hours (through February 28, 2027)
- 2 L-CERPs (through December 31, 2027)
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