Lactation as a Biological System: The Dynamics of Human Milk Composition

Content
2 modules

Course length
30 mins

Instructor
Medela Global Education

Price
Free

Description

Medela’s Breastfeeding & Lactation Symposium 2023 featured a world-class agenda for healthcare professionals keen to learn about the latest scientific evidence in the field of human milk and lactation towards improving the quality of lactation care and infant feeding.

The agenda included the following lectures:

  • Lactation as a biological system: The dynamics of human milk composition (Prof. Lars Bode, USA)
  • Lactation as a biological system: The importance of dose (Prof. Donna Geddes, Australia)
  • A call to action: Improving human milk & breastfeeding outcomes by prioritizing effective initiation of lactation (Prof. Diane Spatz, USA)
  • Initiation of lactation: Prophylactic lactation support as Standard of Care for mothers of NICU infants (Dr Rebecca Hoban, Canada)

 

This webinar features the lecture of Prof. Lars Bode: Lactation as a biological system: The dynamics of human milk composition. 

 

If you would like to complete all four modules and get your nursing credits, please use this link

Objectives

Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:

  • Define key elements of biological systems in general and of the mother-milk-infant triad in particular.
  • Illustrate how variations in the maternal component of the triad alter human milk composition.
  • Describe how human milk composition can influence infant health and development depending on infant characteristics, time, and context.

Certificate

By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate The dynamics of human milk composition

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