A02-1 Infant Feeding Key Messages: A Bite-Sized Prenatal Tool for Providers

 

Authors: Sonya Boersma MScN, RN, IBCLC; Joan Bueckert RN, IBCLC

 

Purpose: A new prenatal infant feeding toolkit provides bite-size infant feeding topics for the busy clinician to discuss at routine prenatal visits. There is an accompanying poster for the office wall that empowers new mothers to ask for information. Learn about the handy tool, its development, accompanying poster, and evaluation.

 

Learning Objectives:

• State the underlying evidence, development, and evaluation process of this tool.
• Demonstrate sample sections while explaining the importance of having access to current, consistent, evidence-informed, and BFI-aligned information when counselling clients with breastfeeding.
• Discuss methods to routinely incorporate use of the toolkit in your organization.

Presenters: Sonya Boersma and Joan Bueckert, BFI Strategy for Ontario, Ottawa ON

 

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A02-2 Increasing the Availability of Breastfeeding Education Resources for Inpatient Postpartum Women and Families Who Do Not Speak English

 

Authors: Caroline Assouad HBSc, BScN, RN, PNC(C); Sue Hermann MN, RN, IBCLC, PNC(C), CTDP; Monica Nicholson RN, MN; Jo Watson RN(EC), PhD, IBCLC, PNC(C) 

 

Purpose: To discuss the planning, creation, and introduction of breastfeeding education resources targeting postpartum patients and families in the hospital with low English proficiency.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the barriers facing non-English speaking postpartum patients.
• Understand the process of planning and creating multilingual inpatient breastfeeding education resources.
• Understand the process measures and medium-term measurable outcomes after implementation of new in-house translated postpartum resources.

Presenter: Caroline Assouad, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto ON