Initiating Breastfeeding Conversations with Mothers and Families

Caroline Steele, MS, RD, CSP, IBCLC, director of Clinical Nutrition & Lactation Services at Children's Hospital of Orange County in California, offers practical clinical information and motivational techniques for encouraging breastfeeding. In this webcast, she discusses how to initiate conversations about breastfeeding with patients—when these conversations should take place, how to assess patients for their likelihood to adopt breastfeeding, barriers to breastfeeding, and helping patients making good choices about formula if they are unable or unwilling to breastfeed.

This material was originally presented to a live internet audience on 8-Nov-2013, and was available for credit through 7-Nov-2017.

This course does not offer CE credit.

  • Caroline Steele, MS, RD, IBCLC

    Clinical Consultant
    Timeless Medical Systems

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