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At Lactation Education Asia Pacific, we believe that learning is a continuous process that should never end. Our mission is to provide high-quality adult education courses that are accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or experience. We offer a wide range of courses in various subjects, including business, technology, health, and more. Our courses are designed to help you acquire new skills, advance your career, and achieve your personal goals. Join us today and embark on a journey of lifelong learning!
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RELACTATION MANAGEMENT TRAINING
with LACTATION MASSAGE TECHNIQUES
Master Trainer: Ma. Innes Av. Fernandez
Co-Founder: ARUUGAN and BREASTFEEDING MOVEMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Dates towards the end of August/September 25 are still being finalised.
Stay tuned!
Advance Your Breastfeeding Knowledge with a workshop
Infant Feeding Essentials - An Introduction CPD pending
Date and CPD pending
Breastfeeding is for everyone, this course is for all health workers who have missed adequate basic breastfeeding knowledge in their training.
Infant Feeding Essentials - Facilitating Normal
Date and CPD pending
For health workers with closer contact with breastfeeding mothers this course offers skills to ensure your interactions positively support adequate growth and development through breastfeeding.
Infant Feeding Essentials - Ethical Lactation Care
Infant Feeding Essentials - Ethical Lactation Care
BRISBANE - Late August 2025
Mothers seek advice on infant feeding from health workers. It is essential that guidance on infant feeding is free from commercial influence, find out more with this practical workshop.
Advanced Practice - Breastfeeding Challenges
Infant Feeding Essentials - Ethical Lactation Care
Date pending
Many mothers face breastfeeding difficulties, gain confidence in managing these common challenges.
Advanced Practice - Oral Restrictions
Infant Feeding Essentials - Induced Lactation
Date pending
Conflicting information and personal opinions frequently override sensible feeding support and discussion about tongue-tie management. Gain confidence in discussing ties with families while competently managing their feeding concerns.
Infant Feeding Essentials - Induced Lactation
Infant Feeding Essentials - Induced Lactation
Date pending
Induced lactation is possible and understanding the physiology can deepen your understanding of breastfeeding and your confidence in its success.
Programme
Infant Feeding Essentials - An Introduction
The normal course of Breastfeeding
This session will cover the anatomy, physiology, and endocrine features of the normal course of lactation. We will explore milk composition, infant and maternal contributors to initiating and maintaining breastfeeding such as skin to skin, feeding frequency, and attachment and discuss how these elements are impacted by health workers.
Australian & International Guidelines on Infant Feeding for Health Workers.
- An overview of the NHMRC Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers,
- World Health Organization International Code Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (The International Code),
- Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy 2019 and Beyond (ANBS 2019)
An overview of breastfeeding challenges
- An overview of the common challenges of breastfeeding, pain, supply/growth concerns, mastitis,
- Explore simple strategies to support breastfeeding and overcome difficulties and
- Briefly discuss the prudent use of lactation aids.
Evaluating Growth
- Discuss WHO growth criteria.
- Practice charting the elements of growth and development.
- Describe the purpose a screening tool in growth measurement.
- Discuss clinical observation and their role in evaluating growth.
- Review communication about growth that supports breastfeeding and parental self-efficacy.
Programme
Infant Feeding Essentials - Facilitating Normal (6 L CERPs)
Supporting Initiation of Successful Breastfeeding
- Discuss infant and maternal contributors to initiating and maintaining breastfeeding such as birth, skin to skin, feeding frequency, and attachment and
- Discuss how these are impacted by health workers.
Australian & International Guidelines on Infant Feeding for Health Workers.
- An overview of the NHMRC Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers,
- World Health Organization International Code Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (The International Code),
- Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy 2019 and Beyond (ANBS 2019)
An overview of breastfeeding challenges
- An overview of the common challenges of breastfeeding, pain, supply/growth concerns, mastitis,
- Explore simple strategies to support breastfeeding and overcome difficulties and
- Briefly discuss the prudent use of lactation aids.
Taking the lactation history
- Identify elements of the medical and social situation to include in a history,
- Observe and record a breastfeed to create a baseline for observing and recording changes resulting from interventions and
- Record findings from physical examination and observation of the infant and mother.
Positioning and attachment
This session will briefly recap breast and infant anatomy and innate reflexes,
identify the elements of optimal attachment for milk transfer and discuss strategies for positioning to achieve optimal attachment using video as a visual aid.
Hand Expressing
Hand expressing is an essential skill for mothers and health workers. This session will:
- Describe and discuss technique, collection, and storage.
- Explore antenatal expressing of colostrum including safety, timing, storage, pros and cons will also be discussed.
Evaluating Growth
- Discuss WHO growth criteria.
- Practice charting the elements of growth and development.
- Describe the purpose a screening tool in growth measurement.
- Discuss clinical observation and their role in evaluating growth.
- Review communication about growth that supports breastfeeding and parental self-efficacy.