Abstract:
This presentation will deal with situations which are encountered by lactation professionals globally, fairly commonly and some rarely. This talk will deal with how solutions need to be conjured from thin air at times pertaining to the problem at hand and may not always be available in textbooks or on websites.
A lot of lactation counseling comes from experience and this talk will help practicing lactation professionals to put on their thinking caps to help mothers better.
Some of the cases included will be as follows:
1. Breastfeeding a baby with jaundice. How to avoid separation of mother-baby dyad
2. Thin line between relactation and induced lactation. bereavement breastfeeding
3. Raw milk sharing by mothers of fragile NICU babies
4. Breastfeeding after treatment of breast cancer
5. Breastfeeding in motion - when sitting is uncomfortable
6. Expressing milk when mother has been advised bed-rest
7. Simultaneous breastfeeding in twins with easily available, accessible tools
8. Rare case of cleft palate lip synechae and modalities of treatment
9. Maintaining milk supply in a mother who delivered at 27 weeks BW 1kg till breastfeeding was established at 2.6kg. Use of a manual breastpump as mother was not financially well off.
