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This is an online event.Rebooting Lactation: Trauma- Informed Skills Workshop
Please join us for Rebooting Lactation: A Trauma-Informed Workshop with Mireya Gonzalez. This workshop will cover how to teach skills through a trauma informed approach that centers the breast/chestfeeding dyad and empowers the lactating parent. The webinar will be held on Thursday, August 13, 2020, from 12 PM to 1 PM.
Mireya Gonzalez is a first generation P’repucha Chicana Community Lactation Educator and Maternal and Child Mental Health Advocate who provides accessible, trauma-informed, culturally congruent lactation education and support for her community. Mireya is the founder of Chichihualli Lactation, a grassroots community organization that provides accessible culturally sensitive breast/chestfeeding support and education to lactating indigenous and Latinx communities in Los Angeles CA. Mireya centers lactating indigenous people of Cemanahuac/Mesoamerica in her services with an emphasis on protecting, preserving, and restoring breast/chestfeeding as an ancestral tradition, and human and reproductive right. As an indigenous mother who’s breastfed for over five consecutive years, Mireya see’s access to lactation education and support as a critical and vital component to indigenous rights, and environmental and social justice movements. In her services, Mireya takes an ecological, environmental, historical, and sociocultural approach that builds on the strengths of indigenous people, communities and family lineages. While raising awareness on correlations between indigenous breast/chestfeeding outcomes and family and community health, Mireya makes it her priority to return breast/chestfeeding resources to her urban marginalized community in order to empower indigenous breast/chestfeeding families to build on their ancestral, historical, generational, and personal resiliency. In addition to being a Community Lactation Educator and Maternal and Child Mental Health Advocate, Mireya is actively involved in influencing the lactation field by advocating for racial equity through her activism, advocacy campaigns, and collaborative efforts with doulas, local organizations, and community stakeholders.
By now many have heard about the breastfeeding notion that many individuals just can’t breast/chestfeed. The common parent narrative is that they simply were never able to make milk, but recent research is highlighting that while there are few individuals who are indeed faced with challenges to making milk due to biological underlying causes, many parents are being faced with breast/chestfeeding barriers that are preventable and reversible, and more related to social and psychological factors. The reality is that in spite of the hospital healthcare team having the greatest amount of influence over a parents initial breast/chestfeeding experience, parents are still blaming themselves for failure to succeed in meeting their breast/chestfeeding goals. The healthcare team can do more to support lactating parents in reaching personal and national breast/chestfeeding goals by teaching breast/chestfeeding related skills through a trauma informed approach, such as hand expression and initiating an optimal latch. This workshop will cover how to teach hand expression, and achieve an optimal latch through a trauma informed approach that centers the breast/chestfeeding dyad and empowers the lactating parent.
Objectives: After participating in this workshop participants will be able to:
1. Communicate key steps in teaching hand expression and hand placement
2. Communicate key steps in teaching infant latching
3. Identify key phrases to use when counseling parents and teaching hand expression and infant latching
Cancellation Policy
After the end of the meeting a recording will be sent to all registrants to view at their convenience, therefore no refunds will be granted
Payment Policy
Payment must be made during the time of online registration using a credit or debit card. If you need to make alternate payment arrangements such as a company check to be mailed to BreastfeedLA, you MUST select the ticket option of "General Registration by Check." No Early Bird registration rates will apply to payments by check. This policy is in effect as of Aug 1, 2017.