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“Beyond the 20 Hour”

Advanced Breastfeeding Practitioner Training

With Dr. Jack Newman and Edith Kernerman IBCLC

September 15-16th 2011
9:00 am to 5 pm

Venue:

St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital Elm View Room (ground floor) 189 Elm Street St. Thomas, Ontario click here for map

Cost: $250 +HST ($282.50) Includes lunch/refreshments and CERPs

To register contact:
Shawn DeVree
shawn@vestaparenting.ca
767 Talbot Street, St. Thomas, ON N5P 1E3
519.631.6461
click here for registration form

There have been several recently released government and statistical studies that make it clear that we are on the cusp of a crisis¹.  It is no secret that in Ontario, and particularly in South-western Ontario, breastfeeding success rates are plummeting.  While 81.4% (90% provincially) of new mothers are initiating breastfeeding, only 22% of local moms (27% provincially) are still exclusively breastfeeding at 6 months².  Artificial feeding costs the health care system billions of dollars per year, as a lack of breastfeeding increases a baby’s risk of several diseases, ailments, cancers and premature death³.  It has been proven statistically that when mothers initiating breastfeeding are offered early and comprehensive help by skilled professionals their chance of breastfeeding success is much higher than if they were isolated or not given up-to-date breastfeeding information⁴.  The statistics are proof positive that we need to do better. 

With our province and community’s health in mind, Vesta has asked two of North America’s leading breastfeeding experts to create a program tailored to improving our breastfeeding success rates.  In September 2011, Vesta will host Dr. Jack Newman and Edith Kernerman (IBCLC) in a special two-day workshop.  This 14-hour intensive training session, based on evidence from the most up-to-date research and practice, will provide breastfeeding support counselors with the tools to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in accordance with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. 

Participants can include:
IBCLC candidates, physicians, midwives, RNs, doulas, prenatal educators, naturopaths, and anyone interested in learning more about breastfeeding.

Overview of Course Content

• The first few days - best practices for setting mothers up for breastfeeding success
• Shifting the baby’s paradigm—solving breast refusal and inability to latch
• When breastfeeding is not contraindicated
• Gospel of latch and flow
• Observation of breastfeeding mom
• Treating the Cause—Individualized protocols for the diagnoses and treatment of nipple and breast pain

Accomodations
If you are coming from out of town we recommend you stay at the Comfort Inn in St. Thomas. We’ve arranged a block of rooms to be available at $109.99 per room.  Room sharing is available, please contact us and we will do our best to connect you with another person wishing to share accommodations.  

Hotel information:
Comfort Inn
100 Centennial Avenue
St. Thomas, ON N5R 5B2
(519) 633-4082
Group rates are under “Vesta Parenting Inc.”

Meals and Refreshments
Refreshments are served throughout the day. This includes continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack.  For environmental benefit we ask that each participant brings a reusable hot and cold beverage container.

About Jack Newman:

Dr. Jack Newman graduated from the University of Toronto medical school in 1970, interning at the Vancouver General Hospital.  He did his training in paediatrics in Quebec City and then at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 1977-1981 to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1981 as well as Board Certified by the AAP in 1981.  He has worked as a physician in Central America, New Zealand and South Africa.  He founded the first hospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984.  He has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Canada.

Dr. Newman was a staff paediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children emergency department from 1983 to 1992, and was, for a period of time, the acting chief of the emergency services.  However, once the breastfeeding clinic started functioning, it took more and more of his time and he eventually worked full time helping mothers and babies succeed with breastfeeding.  He now works at the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute based at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. Dr. Newman has several publications on breastfeeding.

About Edith Kernerman:

In 2001, after many years of doing volunteer work with breastfeeding mothers, Edith Kernerman began helping mothers on a more full-time basis.  In 2002, Kernerman became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Lactation Educator in Toronto, Canada. In 2005, Kernerman founded the International Meeting of the Minds, a forum where experts can discuss conflicting and contradictory views in lactation medicine.  Kernerman continues this work toward minimizing contradictory and conflicting information in the lactation world by encouraging discourse among experts in particular areas of lactation. In 2006, she co-founded, and is now the co-director of, the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic & Institute. Kernerman is a member of the Canadian Lactation Consultants Association (CLCA) and the International Lactation Consultants Association, Kernerman has just created the Ontario Lactation Consultants Association, and is she is currently a member of the Ontario Breastfeeding Committee, and a member of, and a liaison (for the CLCA) to the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.   Kernerman breastfed her two daughters.

For more information about Dr. Jack Newman and Edith Kernerman and the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute go to http://www.nbci.ca/index.php

1. Quality Monitor 2010 Report on Ontario’s Health System 84-85
2. Quality Monitor 2010 Report on Ontario’s Health System 84-85; 2010 Community Health Status Report St. Thomas Elgin 169-170
3. Health Care Costs of Formula-feeding in the First Year of Life Pediatrics 1999;103;870-876 Thomas M. Ball and Anne L. Wright
4. Effect of Breastfeeding Support from Different Sources on Mothers' Decisions to Breastfeed Johns Hopkins Breastfeeding Center September 1994 vol. 10 no. 3 157-161