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SwedishAmerican HealthConnect
2550 Charles Street
Rockford, IL 61108
To register, please call SwedishAmerican
HealthConnect at (815) 968-2500 or tear
off the registration form and mail it by
May 15, 2015.
• Fee is $75 for this conference
• Register early, space is limited
• Vegetarian meal offered
CERP’s and CEU’s
This CE activity is being offered for 6
contact hours. The contact hours will be
awarded upon attendance for the entire
day and completion of the evaluation form.
SwedishAmerican Health System (OH-388,
9/11/15) is an approved provider of continuing
education by the Ohio Nurses Association
(OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by
the American Nurses Credentialing
Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This activity has been submitted for CNE
credits.
Accommodations
Holiday Inn Express
$99.95
(815) 654-4100
Hilton Garden Inn
$159.99
(815) 229-3322
Fairfield Inn
$139.00
(815) 398-7400
Mention Northern Illinois Breastfeeding
Task force for special rates.
Northern Illinois Breastfeeding Task
Force Presents: Catherine Watson Genna
Begin at the
Beginning with
Exhibits and Door Prizes! Join us
for a fun day of learning and networking.
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Registration
Comprehensive Breastfeeding Management:
Registration form
Breastfeeding
June 3, 2015, 7:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Franchesco’s Ristorante
7128 Perry Creek Parkway, Rockford, IL 61107
Topics
• Helping Moms Initiate Breastfeeding
Intended Audience
• The Non Latching Infant-first
48 hours and beyond
• Infant Communication
• Introduction to Sensory Integration
Objectives
Participant will be able to ...
• Discuss newborn behaviors and
importance of immediate skin to
skin contact. List what compromises
breastfeeding
• Describe infant’s expectations for
breastfeeding. Assisting infants who
are unable to latch
• List infant stress cues, hunger cues in
order of urgency. Infant conditions that
negatively impact infant’s ability to
breastfeed.
Registration form
on back side.
• Describe sensory integration and it
effect of states of arousal. Senses used
during breastfeeding, strategies
for helping infant with dyspraxia to
breastfeed, assist moms in organizing
breastfeeding.
Featured Speaker
Catherine Watson Genna BS, IBCLC is
an International Board Certified Lactation
Consultant in private practice in NYC since
1992. She has a special interest in the
anatomical, genetic and neurological
influences on infant sucking skills, and
writes and speaks internationally on these
topics. Her current research projects
involve utilizing ultrasound to examine
tongue movements during breastfeeding
in infants with ankyloglossia; and studying
suck: swallow rhythms using cervical
auscultation. She is the author of Supporting
Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants (Jones
and Bartlett Publishers, 2008 and 2013)
and Selecting and Using Breastfeeding
Tools (Hale Publishing, 2009) and serves
as the Associate Editor of the USLCA
Journal Clinical Lactation.
Sponsored by the
following organizations
Northern Illinois Breastfeeding Task Force
Illinois Department of Human Services
SwedishAmerican Health System
Rockford Memorial Hospital
Physicians, nurses, lactation consultants,
WIC Nutritionists, case managers,
dieticians, doulas, peer counselors,
pharmacists and other health care
professionals who care for breastfeeding
women and infants
Conference Agenda
7:15-8:00
Registration, Exhibits &
Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Introduction and
Announcements
8:15-9:45 Session I
Helping Moms Initiate
Breastfeeding
9:45-10:00 Break please visit exhibits
10:00-12:00 Session II
The Non latching Infant:
The First 48 hours and Beyond
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Session III
Introduction to Sensory
Integration and Breastfeeding
2:45-3:15 Break and Door Prizes
3:15-4:15 Session IV
Infant Communication
4:15-4:45
Closing and Evaluations