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Seminar Sessions
Dr. Scott is happy to provide seminars on topics upon request, please allow sufficient development lead time
Professional Conferences: $1,200 (USD) per presentation day, $350 (USD) per session, or $500 per half day plus travel expenses, meals, lodging, conference registration, and CERP fees. Honorarium fees and expense reimbursement are due in USD at conclusion of the conference.
Smaller Association Conferences or Mother-to-Mother Groups:
Fees are Negotiable
Dr. Cheryl Scott is delighted to offer presentations on the following seminar topics:
General Breastfeeding Topics
Sharpening the Tools of our Trade: Using Our Tools Wisely
60-120 minutes
This session provides our seminar attendees with a close look at common breastfeeding tools used by lactation consultants and breastfeeding mothers from around our world. We will identify common clinical indications for the correct use of breastfeeding tools, how to teach mothers the correct use of tools and when to wean off of these tools. This is a favorite among all my seminar attendees!
Breast Practices for Successful Breastfeeding
60 minutes
Just because breastfeeding practices have derived from clinically evidenced-based practices doesn’t always guarantee breastfeeding success for our modern mothers. Join us for a careful examination of which best practices truly generate breastfeeding success when the rubber meets the road. Learn the best practices from hospitals around our country that are truly enhancing breastfeeding success for initiation and long term goals.
Nipple Shields: Bringing Balance to an Age-old Tool
30-60 minutes
Nipple Shields have been used by breastfeeding women for over 500 years yet continues to be a controversial breastfeeding tool even though it is one of the most studied and documented breastfeeding tools used today. Join us for an enjoyable look at appropriate clinical indications, teaching safe use, methods for teaching mothers correct application, when and how to wean from tool. This session receives very positive comments from seminar attendees throughout the United States for bringing balance to a mal-aligned tool, which enhances latch and reduces formula supplementation, if used correctly.
Trouble Shooting Common Breastfeeding Challenges
60-120 minutes
This session is a MUST for all Health care professionals working with breastfeeding mothers in the hospital and first two weeks after birth. Learn effective methods so you can assist mothers experiencing engorgement, post-assisted mechanical interventions, and cesarean births. In addition we will look at effective strategies for “night-time” feedings, sleepy babies, twins, and transitory hypoglycemia. This is a frequently requested seminar by many associations and hospitals.
10 Steps to Breastfeeding Success: Keys for Increasing your Breastfeeding Rates and Staff Satisfaction
(60-120 minutes)
These “Easy and Effective 10 Steps for Successful Breastfeeding” closely examines the clinical evidence proven to improve our hospital’s initiation and duration rates. In the recent past, in general, the United States’ hospital practices has not been a driving concern for ensuring successful attachment, parental bonding, and breastfeeding success. This session provides the learner many tangible and helpful tools gleaned scientific evidence from the Baby Friendly Hospital’s Best Practices and the Model Hospital Policies.
Most hospitals in the United States are striving to reach The Healthy People 2020. How can our mothers get to this goal if they don’t start off well? Our answer lies in the improvement of breastfeeding rates by the implementation of the Ten Steps of Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. Inpatient and Outpatient Health Care Professionals and Lactation Consultants will learn how to make their job much easier and more effective at achieving successful parental bonding, breastfeeding initiation, and duration rates through the content covered in this powerful seminar.
Successful Strategies for Implementing Continuous Skin to Skin in the Hospital and First 2 Months of Life
(60 – 120 minutes)
Continuous Skin-to-Skin (CSTS) is one of the most effective strategies for infant adaptation to extra-uterine life, improved mother-infant attachment, family bonding, and attaining successful breastfeeding goals. Discover the amazing effects of Continuous Skin to Skin (CSTS). This session is a must on your list of priorities of educational opportunities! Learn how to lighten your nurse’s workload while ensuring optimal safety for your newly delivered mothers and babies. Learn the many benefits CSTS provides mothers, babies, and health care workers. Explore common hospital barriers to CSTS and easy solutions to provide mothers and babies access to each other for successful breastfeeding, effective bonding, attachment, and postpartum transitions. Our seminar provides the health care provider with tips for making your job easier as you manage postpartum mother and baby care. Learn evidenced based breastfeeding management skills to maximize nature’s best medicine for both mother and baby:
Comments for Seminar Organizers:
This is a highly praised session by all health care providers working with the breastfeeding triad in the first 2 months of life. This hands-on session provides the seminar participant with many tools to successfully promote parental support and enthusiasm for continuous skin to skin in the first 2 months of life. Positive and easy-to-implement strategies for changing institutional paradigms are provided in this session. Nurses, Lactation Consultants, nurse midwives, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and WIC peer counselors, enthusiastically embrace this fun session which provides the with solid tools which have been successfully implemented in many hospitals and clinics for the continuation of skin to skin to increase successful parental/infant bonding and successful long-term breastfeeding
The 6 ‘R’s for Galactagogue Safety
(1 or 2 hours)
Just as nursing students are taught the importance of the 6 R’s of medication delivery, so to, Lactation Specialists should know the 5 R’s for galactagogue safety and efficacy. The 5 R’s for galactagogue delivery include confirmation of the right patient, right galactagogue, right dose, right route, right time, and right documentation. Participants in this session will learn how to assess “the right patient” based upon ethnicity, cultural, religious, and societal practices and preferences, along with the affordability, accessibility, and healthcare preferences. A review of several American subcultures and societal levels will be analyzed to provide the participant with a better understanding to best meet her breastfeeding client’s expectations and personal preferences. A review of the most common galactagogues used in industrialized nations that best match specific factors for low milk supply. The participant will be gain an in-depth understanding of which galactagogues are best utilized for particular low milk supply problems. Learn which galactagogues are most appropriate or inappropriate for low milk supply factors such as history of depression, anemia, hormone imbalance, stress, eating disorders, history of allergies, insufficient glandular tissue, postpartum edema, hypothyroid, hypertension, etc. Each of the most commonly used galactagogues will be reviewed for accuracy of optimal dosage, route and time to be given. Safety for all medications whether they are synthetic or food based medicines is a priority for all lactation consultants. The “5 R’s for Galactagogue Safety” is a must see for lactation consultants. Monographs containing the 5 R’s will be provided.
Effective Methods for Boosting Low Milk Supply: Keeping Baby Healthy and Mother Happy
(60- 120 minutes)
Low milk supply continues to be the number one reason for early cessation of breastfeeding. Seminar participants will be able to identify causes for low milk supply and how to develop and implement specific breastfeeding care plans to improve maternal milk supply. We explore specific challenges and causes of low milk supply that many breastfeeding mothers experience. Let us help you to learn easy solutions for specific causes for low milk supply. Enjoy learning a balanced approach between Western Medicine and Complementary Medicine. Discover tried and true methods that really work to boost low milk supply. Learn how to make a frustrating experience for breastfeeding mothers into a fulfilling experience. Breastfeeding can work when we have the knowledge and proper tools to give to our breastfeeding mothers.
This session is a highly integrative session. There is a high level of audience participation with many hands-on activities. This is a highly sought after seminar by all types of health care providers. This can be limited to a one or 2 hour session, however to allow our seminar participants to fully benefit from ALL benefits this session is able to provide them, a full 1 or 2 days is highly recommended.
Holistic Support for the Breastfeeding Family
(1 or 2 hour sessions)
Holistic breastfeeding support is a lot of fun for both mothers and lactation specialists alike! Our session will lead you into a deeper understanding of traditional medicine commonly known as Energy Medicine. Energy Medicine focuses primarily with the balance of the Electro Magnetic energy fields within and without the human. Our session covers the historical side of medicine with a review of traditional methods of bringing comfort, relief and increase of milk volume for breastfeeding mothers. Our seminar reviews the evolution of medicine beginning with Newtonian theories to Holographic theories; We will explore the time honored traditions of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine. You will be able to learn Ayurvedic breast massage techniques from our East Indian friends and neighbors that increase mammary tissue development and milk volume. Have you ever wanted to know which acupressure and reflexology points from the traditional practices of our Chinese neighbors and friends will help our breastfeeding mothers? Come and find out how easy and effective energetic medicine can help your breastfeeding mothers with milk flow, stimulate suckling response and much more. Learn which homeopathic remedies assist mothers with challenges ranging from breast abscesses to low milk supply.
Topics for Supporting Breastfeeding in the NICU
Supporting the NICU Breastfeeding Dyad with Compassionate Lactation Care
(One, Two or Three, or Six hour seminar)
NICU mothers require consistent doses of Compassionate Lactation Care permeated throughout her “medicalized” lactation management. Compassionate Lactation Care enables the NICU mother to successfully navigate the stormy waters inherent for most high-risk NICU infants. Providing compassionate lactation care enables the NICU mother to successfully initiate and maintain her milk supply, learn effective methods for latching, sustain breast milk production, safeguards and protects her self-worth as a mother, and enhances bonding with her high-risk infant. Compassionate lactation care consistently guides the NICU breastfeeding mother as she learns to identify breastfeeding readiness and establish realistic, achievable breast milk feeding goals for her baby and her.
Studies demonstrate positive results when compassionate care is mindfully infused in the medical management of hospitalized patients. Seminar attendees will learn easy, effective, and practical methods on how to infuse compassionate lactation care in your lactation management style. Learn how to use the model of compassionate lactation care to minimize depression, frustration, anger and grief when normal breastfeeding goals and expectations have been challenged in the NICU environment. Compassionate lactation care provides medical, emotional and psychological support thereby assisting our mothers to identify realistic, achievable breast milk feeding goals. Learn how to couple clinically evidenced based practices with the model of compassionate lactation care to make your job easier and increase breast milk feeding success for our NICU families. You will discover clinically evidenced based methods using compassionate lactation care to improve breastfeeding outcomes for your NICU families who commonly face a myriad of struggles and challenges.
10 Steps to Breastfeeding Success in the NICU:
(1, 2 hour seminar)
Mothers of preterm and sick infants face many challenges in lactation and breastfeeding. Her inability to meet the perceived expectations of her lactation capacity may give way to feelings of shame or a perception that breastfeeding is task oriented rather than mutually pleasurable. Discover how to create lactation support for mothers of breast milk-fed infants requiring neonatal intensive/intermediate care. Learn how to develop evidence based, individualized, and consistent professional support with the10 Steps of Breastfeeding Success in the NICU. Arm yourself using these tangible methods as you assist your NICU mothers with the following breastfeeding concerns: preventing compromised milk production, reducing stress over mother-infant separation, decreasing maternal anxiety over impending infant discharge from the hospital, providing sensitive breastfeeding counseling with empathy and respect, and providing family centered care to improve the parent’s natural role and enhance a successful breast milk feeding experience.
Supporting the Pumping Mother with Compassionate Lactation Care
(1 or 2 hour seminar)
Supporting the Pumping Mother with Compassionate Lactation Care
“Why are so many mothers pumping and not directly breastfeeding”? There are several reasons why mothers choose to pump and provide milk with a bottle and not directly from the tap. These reasons include: mothers unable to latch their baby, teenagers, “too posh to push” mothers, victims of sexual abuse, mothers with faltering milk supply, mothers returning to work within the first few weeks after delivery, and mothers pumping for small or sick infants. Many newly delivered mothers intend to exclusively breastfeed their baby, however, when a medical needs arise in the hospital setting many mothers are requested to pump. Common reasons for pumping in the hospital include: initial excessive weight loss, high bilirubin levels, late preterm infants, small for gestational age infants, baby’s admitted to the NICU and the list goes on. Pumping mothers encounter many challenges such as altered ego identification, depression, milk supply challenges, and fatigue. All these factors contribute to early cessation of breast milk feeding. Learn how you can support pumping mothers with compassionate lactation care. Compassionate lactation care of the pumping mother addresses her specific needs by using a holistic model of care. Through compassionate lactation care, you will learn methods to empower the mother thereby enhancing greater bonding to her baby and not the pump, enhancing optimal milk supply, helping the mother identify and utilize the supportive resources available to her.
Preserving the Breastfeeding Relationship in the NICU through Kangaroo Care
(One-hour seminar)
Many NICU nurses want to help parents with Kangaroo Mother care however, due to concern for infant safety and time constraints for the nurse, Kangaroo Mother Care is often overlooked. This one-hour presentation highlights the immense benefits of Kangaroo Care as presented by neonatologists Edgar Rey and Hector Martinez in Bogota, Columbia. The seminar participant will learn how to teach parents safe practices of Kangaroo Mother care for the premature and Late Pre-Term Infant. The health care provider will learn many benefits of Kangaroo Mother care such as reducing mortality rates from 70 to 30%, reduction of colic, apnea and bradycardia. Improved sleep time, oxygen saturation, stabilization of respiration, heart rate, body temperature, weight gain, and breastfeeding success along with ensuring shorter hospital stay. This seminar features a hands-on approach involving learner participation providing seminar participants a great learning opportunity.
Optimizing Maternal Milk Supply in the NICU Environment
(1, 2 hour seminar)
This seminar provides the health care provider practical strategies for supporting breastfeeding mother’s to start and maintain her milk supply during her infant’s course in the NICU environment. Practical tips for nurses on how to assist mothers in setting up breast pumps, optimizing milk supply and getting through those bumps along the journey. Useful tips for nurses in assisting mothers with positioning and latching.
Benefits, Advantages and Rewards of Human Milk
(1 hour seminar)
How do you get NICU health care staff to enthusiastically support breastfeeding mothers? NICU staff buy-in to support breastfeeding success begins through the discovery of the unbelievable benefits human milk provides the neonate. Join us in this refreshing educational expedition along every stage of the neonate’s journey; beginning at birth, through the up and down meanderings in the NICU to his successful finish over the home stretch. Join us on this fantastic voyage as we delve into the microbiology and immunological properties of human milk as it supports the NICU infant. This is not a boring seminar!
Practical Tips for Supporting the NICU Breastfeeding Dyad
(1, 2 or 4 hours)
Breastfeeding a special care baby is one of the most important jobs for our NICU mothers. Even though breastfeeding a NICU baby experiencing multiple health challenges is not an easy job, a well-informed NICU nurse using our practical tips and strategies helps her achieve breastfeeding success. This seminar highlights evidenced based strategies to get your NICU baby’s breastfeeding experience off to a good start.
Life Style Management Seminars
Turning your Job into Joy
60 minutes, 120 minutes, or 6-hour seminar
You can turn your life around by learning how to approach each day with Joy. This session provides the audience with powerful tips and techniques for creating stressful work-days into days full of meaning and joy. Learn the secrets of successfully transforming your life and the lives of your patients through these easy methods for nurturing yourself and those you care for. This is a fun and interactive workshop type seminar, which truly transforms the lives of our seminar participants.
Exceptional Care for Ourselves and our Breastfeeding Families
(60, 120 minutes or 6 hour seminar)
"Providing Exceptional Care for Ourselves and Others" In this seminar you will discover the essential tools health care professionals need for caring for others and for themselves, without succumbing to health care burnout. You will learn how to navigate the seas of daily stress and the demands of workplace overload without losing yourself to unbearable stress, chronic health conditions, and complacency. Being a lactation consultant and/ or nurse who works with breastfeeding families has wonderful personal and emotional compensations however it can be a draining experience. You will learn effective methods to cope with the mental and physical strain of the daily demands we encounter in today’s healthcare workplace. Caring for others is a deeply fundamental trait within our souls. It is an innate and powerful part of who we are and always will be. For many of us, compassion and caring were primary reasons for becoming a nurse. Has your passion for compassionate care disappeared and become a value of the past? Join us so you can learn how to:
• Take good care of yourself with use of holistic practices that are easy, cheap and fun for you to incorporate into your lifestyle
• How to set limits and boundaries in the workplace
• Finding balance in your world
• How to nurture yourself so you can care for others
• Scheduling time for yourself
• Identify support systems and how to utilize them
Avoiding Professional Burnout
(One or Two day seminar)
The Health Care Environment in the 21st century is taking a toll on our health as clinicians. Our hospitals and clinics load more and more responsibility on our shoulders. The constant updating of high tech nursing, complicated medications, short staffing, poor staffing, translates into more personal stress and less time to carry out our duties safely for ourselves and for our patients. Our hospitals and clinics experience notoriously high burnout rates due to changing in staffing patterns, patient care delivery styles, and unrealistic expectations from management. Defining You, Your Dreams, Your Goals.It’s high time we take time to reassess how we are doing with realizing the career goals and dreams we began when we entered the work force. Join us as we take time to help you define who you are as a person, as a caregiver, and the many other roles you play in this wonderful journey called life. Join us as we take a look at your dreams and how to help you realize your nursing career goals. We will be discovering tools for your personal empowerment. Join us as we learn how to Recognize the fears that limit your success and how to protecting your dreams from critical people. Let us help you create and pursue your lactation management career dream.
The Lactation Consultant’s “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” Guide: Minimize Stress & Conflict While Bringing Out the Best in Yourself & Others
(60, 120, 180 minutes) (Great for Key Note Speaker Series)
Many of us spend a great deal of our time and energy in our work. Even though we love the work we do for our breastfeeding mothers, our work can be stressful and full of challenges. Each job has its own unique set of problems and sources of stress, and each job carries its specific burdens and occasional nightmares. From time to time, most of us deals with a combination of unpleasant issues such as unrealistic deadlines and expectations, bureaucracies, difficult, demanding jobs and co-workers, ridiculous meetings, quotas to meet, back-stabbing and criticism, harassment, uncertainty and rejection. We often face lack of appreciation, fierce competition, in-sensitive or selfish co-workers, demanding schedules, poor working conditions, long commutes and downsizing.
How will you deal with the stressors you encounter as a Lactation Specialist or Health Care Professional serving our breastfeeding families? Our seminar will help you to live life in a happy and joyful state of being. You will find as a happier and more peaceful being, you will learn to love what you do, become a better listener, develop a sharper learning curve become highly creative, easy to be around and you will become an awesome team player.
Our session will help you to see what is truly the “Big Stuff” and or is what we perceive to be Big Stuff are these really little problems we have blown out of proportion and turned these into giant emergencies. Our session will help us to step back and see the picture for what it really is. Join us as we learn how to identify all the “small stuff” we deal with at work. Evaluate the correlation of how you handle the small stuff and your overall quality of experience. Come join us as you learn to treat the smaller hassles with more perspective, wisdom, patience and a better sense of humor. Our stories and personal examples will help to hone you into a more joyful and peace filled person. You’ll spend far less time being bothered, annoyed and frustrated and more time being creative, productive and joyful. You will develop a sea of endless solutions in your calmer state of mind.
Let us help you learn how to respond to your work challenges in a positive way. Your life and your work will become an extraordinary adventure when you begin sweating the small stuff less often at work.